Ambystoma texanum

Ambystoma texanum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Ambystomatidae
Genus: Ambystoma
Species: Ambystoma texanum

Name

Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)

Type locality: "Rio Colorado bottom land", Texas.

Syntypes: Including NHMW 22920.

Synonyms

• Salamandra texana Matthes, 1855
• Amblystoma texanum — Baird, 1859
• Amblystoma microstomum Cope, 1861
• Chondrotus microstomus — Cope, 1887
• Chondrotus texanus — Cope, 1889
• Ambystoma texanum — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917
• Ambystoma microstomum — Fowler & Dunn, 1917
• Ambystoma schmidti Taylor, 1939
• Ambystoma (Linguaelapsus) schmidti — Tihen, 1958
• Linguaelapsus texanus — Freytag, 1959
• Ambystoma nothagenes Kraus, 1985
• Ambystoma nothogenes — Frank & Ramus, 1995

References

• Matthes, 1855, Allg. Deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung,, N.S., 1: 266.
• Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 12.
• Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Ambystoma texanum
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Ambystoma texanum. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Ambystoma texanum  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 26 July 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Smallmouth Salamander
français: Salamandre à nez court