Plethodontinae

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: Plethodontidae
Subfamilia: Plethodontinae
Genera (8): Aneides – Desmognathus – Ensatina – Hydromantes – Karsenia – Phaeognathus – Plethodon – Speleomantes

Name

Plethodontinae Gray, 1850

Type genus: Plethodon Tschudi, 1838.

Synonymy

Plethodontina — Gray, 1850
Desmognathina Gray, 1850
Ensatinina Gray, 1850
Desmognathidae Cope, 1866
Plethodontinae — Boulenger, 1882
Desmognathinae — Boulenger, 1882
Plethodontida — Knauer, 1883
Plethodontina — Schultze, 1891
Plethodontini — Wake, 1966
Desmognathini — Dubois, 2005

References

Primary references

Gray, J.E. 1850. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphibia in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Batrachia Gradientia, etc. Spottiswoodes and Shaw: London. 72 pp. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Chippindale, P.T., Bonett, R.M., Baldwin, A.S. & Wiens, J.J. 2004. Phylogenetic evidence for a major reversal of life-history evolution in plethodontid salamanders. Evolution 58(12): 2809–2822. DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01632.x Reference page.
Mueller, R.L., Macey, J.R., Jaekel, M., Wake, D.B. & Boore, J.L. 2004. Morphological homoplasy, life history evolution, and historical biogeography of plethodontid salamanders inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101(38): 13820–13825. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405785101 Reference page.
Macey, J.R. 2005. Plethodontid salamander mitochondrial genomics: A parsimony evaluation of character conflict and implications for historical biogeography. Cladistics 21(2): 194–202. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00054.x Reference page.
Min, M.S., Yang, S.Y., Bonett, R.M., Vieites, D.R., Brandon, R.A. & Wake, D.B. 2005. Discovery of the first Asian plethodontid salamander. Nature 435: 87–90. DOI: 10.1038/nature03474 Reference page.
Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . Reference page.
Vieites, D.R., Min, M.-S. & Wake, D.B. 2007. Rapid diversification and dispersal during periods of global warming by plethodontid salamanders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(50): 19903–19907. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705056104 Reference page.
Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39–55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. Reference page.
Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page.
Vieites, D.R., Nieto-Román, S., Wake, M.H. & Wake, D.B. 2011. A multigenic perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the largest family of salamanders, the Plethodontidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(3): 623–635. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.012 Reference page.
Wake, D.B. 2012. Taxonomy of salamanders of the family Plethodontidae (Amphibia: Caudata). Zootaxa 3484(1): 75–82. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3484.1.5 Reference page.
Shen, X.-X., Liang, D., Chen, M.-Y., Mao, R.-L., Wake, D.B. & Zhang, P. 2016. Enlarged Multilocus Data set Provides Surprisingly Younger Time of Origin for the Plethodontidae, the Largest Family of Salamanders. Systematic Biology 65(1): 66–81. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv061 Reference page.

Vernacular names

English: Lungless Salamanders
slovenčina: Mločíkovité