Desmognathus aeneus

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

Desmognathus aeneus Brown & Bishop, 1947

Type locality: "seepage branch 100 feet north of Peachtree Creek, 1/2 mile S. S. E. of Peachtree, Cherokee County, North Carolina", USA.

Holotype: USNM 123977.

Brown & Bishop, 1947, Copeia, 1947: 163.
Bishop, S.C. & Valentine, B.D. 1950. A new species of Desmognathus from Alabama. Copeia 1950(1): 39–43. DOI: 10.2307/1437580, JSTOR Reference page.
Chermock, 1952, Mus. Pap. Alabama Mus. Nat. Hist., 33: 29.

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. Desmognathus aeneus
AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Desmognathus aeneus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Desmognathus aeneus (Near Threatened) Downloaded on 3 August 2008.

English: Seepage Salamander