Climbing salamander
Climbing salamanders | |
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Aneides lugubris | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Family: | Plethodontidae |
Subfamily: | Plethodontinae |
Genus: | Aneides Baird, 1851 |
Species | |
See table | |
Synonyms[1] | |
Anaides Baird, 1851 — junior homonym of Anaides Westwood, 1841 (Coleoptera) |
Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides.[1] As this name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are as mobile up a tree as in a stream. All six species inhabit mountain ecosystems, and all but two are found primarily in the mountains of California.
Species
Eight species are assigned to this genus:[1]
Image | Binomial Name and Author | Common Name |
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Aneides aeneus (Cope and Packard, 1881) |
Green salamander | |
Aneides ferreus Cope, 1869 |
Clouded salamander | |
Aneides flavipunctatus (Strauch, 1870) |
Black salamander | |
Aneides hardii (Taylor, 1941) |
Sacramento Mountain salamander | |
Aneides iecanus (Cope, 1883) |
Shasta salamander | |
Aneides lugubris (Hallowell, 1849) |
Arboreal salamander | |
Aneides niger Myers and Maslin, 1948 |
Santa Cruz black salamander | |
Aneides vagrans Wake and Jackman, 1999 |
Wandering salamander |
The AmphibiaWeb does not recognize Aneides iecanus nor Aneides niger and instead treats them as subspecies of Aneides flavipunctatus, hence listing only six species.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Aneides Baird, 1851". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ^ "Plethodontidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
External links
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