Ambystoma silvense Webb, 2004

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Ambystomatidae > Genus: Ambystoma > Species: Ambystoma silvense

Ambystoma silvensis Webb, 2004, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 40: 132. Holotype: UTEP 8097, by original designation. Type locality: "a pond 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of Navios (Navios ca. 23° 54′ N, 105° 03′ W), 8000 ft (2438 m), Durango, Mexico".

Ambystoma silvenseRaffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 85, mandatory change in spelling to make for gender agreement.

Ambystoma (Heterotriton) silvenseDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77-161.

English Names

Pine Woods Salamander (Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 28).

Durango Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 162).

Distribution

Pine-oak highlands of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Durango and south-central Chihuahua, Mexico; possibly to the Transverse Volcanic Range (see comment).

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Mexico

Endemic: Mexico

Comment

Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 85, provided a brief account and figure.Enderson, Quijada-Mascareñas, Turner, Rosen, and Bezy, 2009, Check List, 5: 632-672, reported the species in Chihuahua, Mexico.Lemos-Espinal, 2007, Anf. Rept. Chihuahua Mexico: 23-24, provided an account and suggested that he was unaware of any morphological distinction from Ambystoma mavortium. The diagnosis and range of this nominal species rests on a confusing literature, including an original description that contained inconsistent information (DRF). Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 97, provided a brief account, photo, and map. Lemos-Espinal, Smith, and Valdes-Lares, 2019, Amph. Rept. Durango: 86–87, provided a brief account for Durango, Mexico. Everson, Gray, Jones, Lawrence, Foley, Sovacool, Kratovil, Hotaling, Hime, Storfer, Parra-Olea, Percino-Daniel, Aguilar-Miguel, O'Neill, Zambrano, Shaffer, and Weisrock, 2021, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 18 (17: e2014719118): 1–10, included this species in their study of molecular evolution and evolution of life histories in the Ambystoma tigrinum complex. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 162, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map)  

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