Plethodon shenandoah

Taxonavigation edit

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

Plethodon shenandoah Highton & Worthington, 1967

Holotype: USNM 157379, adult ♂, collected by Richard Highton, Richard D. Worthington and Robert G. Jaeger on 20 April 1966.
Type locality: “Appalachian Trail 0.02 mile northeast of its junction with Naked Top Mountain Trail, 0.4 air mile west of the top of Hawksbill Mountain, Shenandoah National Park, Page County, Virginia, 3650 ft elevation”.

Plethodon richmondi shenandoah Highton & Worthington, 1967: 617 [original combination, as subspecies]
Plethodon nettingi shenandoah — Highton, 1972: 151 [subsequent combination]
Plethodon shenandoah — Highton & Larson, 1979: 587 [subsequent combination, elevate to species]

Highton, R. & Worthington, R.D. 1967. A New Salamander of the Genus Plethodon from Virginia. Copeia 1967(3): 617–626. DOI: 10.2307/1442241 Reference page.
Highton, R. & Larson, A. 1979. The genetic relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Systematic Zoology 28: 579–599.

Hammerson, G. & Mitchell, J. 2004. IUCN: Plethodon shenandoah (Vulnerable). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T17629A7210465. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T17629A7210465.en. Accessed on 13 November 2022.

English: Shenandoah Salamander

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