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Pseudotriton flavissimus Hallowell, 1856
Pseudotriton flavissimus Hallowell, 1856, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 8: 130. Holotype: ANSP 576 according to Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 19; Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 347. Type locality: "with the preceeding [species from Liberty County], Georgia", USA.
Spelerpes flavissimus — Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 83.
Spelerpes ruber flavissimus — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 176.
Eurycea montana flavissima — Löding, 1922, Mus. Pap. Alabama Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 14.
Pseudotriton montanus flavissimus — Stejneger and Barbour, 1923, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 2: 14; Neill, 1948, Copeia, 1948: 136.
Pseudotriton montanus floridanus Netting and Goin, 1942, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 29: 175. Holotype: CM 16850, by original designation. Type locality: "a seepage area along 'C' Creek, on the University of Florida campus, in Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida", USA.
Pseudotriton flavissimus flavissimus — Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 378; Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 512.
Pseudotriton flavissimus floridanus — Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 381; Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 512.
Pseudotriton montanus floridanus — Neill, 1948, Copeia, 1948: 136.
Gyrinophilus montanus flavissimus — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 115. See comment.
Gyrinophilus montanus floridanus — Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 115. See comment.
Common Names
Gulf Coast Red Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus flavissimus: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 378).
Gulf Coast Mud Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus flavissimus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 48; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 286; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 29; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31; Powell, Conant, and Collins, 2016, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. North Am., 4th ed.: 71; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 33).
Florida Red Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus flavissimus: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 381).
Southeastern Dotted Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus flavissimus: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 49).
Florida Mud Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus floridanus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 48).
Rusty Mud Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus floridanus: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 286; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 29; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31; Powell, Conant, and Collins, 2016, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. North Am., 4th ed.: 71; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 33).
Distribution
Extreme southeastern Louisiana, through southern Mississippi, southern to northeastern Alabama, and southern Georgia south to north-central Florida, USA.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Alabama, United States of America - Florida, United States of America - Georgia, United States of America - Louisiana, United States of America - Mississippi
Endemic: United States of America
Comment
See accounts by Martof, 1975, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 166: 1–2, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 295–298 (both including Pseudotriton diastictus and Pseudotriton flavissimus as a subspecies of Pseudotriton montanus). Hunsinger, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 858–860, provided a detailed account (in the sense of including Pseudotriton diastictus and Pseudotriton flavissimus) that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Cunningham, Smith, and Apodaca, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 360, provided a range extension (as Pseudotriton montanus) to northwest-central Alabama and commented on the range. See comments under Pseudotriton montanus. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 512–513, provided subspecies accounts, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).
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