- What is Amphibian Species of the World?
- How to cite
- How to use
- Structure of the taxonomic records
- Running log of additions and corrections, 2024
- Logs of changes and additions, 2014–2023
- What is the right name?
- Curator's blog
- Amphibian Species of the World on social media
- History of the project, 1980 to 2024
- Comments on amphibian taxonomy relating to versions 3.0 to 6.2 (2004 to 2024)
- Scientific Nomenclature and its Discontents: Comments by Frost on Rules and Philosophy of Taxonomy, Ranks, and Their Applications
- Contributors, online editions
- Contributors and reviewers for Amphibian Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (1985)
- Versions
- Museum abbreviations
- Links to useful amphibian systematic, conservation, collection management, informational, and/or regional sites
- Links to useful FREE library sites
- Copyright and terms of use
Hydromantes platycephalus (Camp, 1916)
Spelerpes platycephalus Camp, 1916, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 17: 11. Holotype: MVZ 5693, by original designation. Type locality: "head of Lyell Cañon, 10,800 ft. altitude, Yosemite National Park, [Tuolumne County,] California", USA. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1866, Anonymous, 1997, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 54: 72-74.
Eurycea platycephala — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 20; Grinnell and Storer, 1924, Animal Life in the YosemiteG: 652.
Hydromantes platycephalus — Dunn, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 40.
Hydromantoides platycephalus — Lanza and Vanni, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 120.
Hydromantoides (Hydromantoides) platycephalus — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 108.
Hydromantes (Hydromantes) platycephalus — Wake, Salvador, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 543–548.
Common Names
Mount Lyell Salamander (Grinnell and Storer, 1924, Animal Life in the Yosemite: 652; Storer, 1925, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 27: 43; Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 76; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 451; Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 146; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 56; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 51; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 7; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 24; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 195; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 19; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 13; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 28; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 29).
Distribution
High elevations (1220–3660 m) in the Sierra Nevada from Sierra and Placer counties south to Tulare and Inyo counties, California, USA.
Geographic Occurrence
Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - California
Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - California
Comment
See accounts by Gorman, 1964, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 11: 1, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 237–238. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 195-196, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 318–319, provided brief accounts. Wake and Papenfuss, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 783–784, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Richardson and Gienger, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 213, discussed the range and provided the first record for Placer County, California, USA. Rovito, 2010, Mol. Ecol., 19: 454–457, implied that the differentiated, allopatric populations of this nominal species might be considered distinct species but did not make a taxonomic change. See related comment under Hydromantes brunus. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 442–443, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 1033–1025, provided an account summarizing systematics, morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).
External links:
Please note: these links will take you to external websites not affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History. We are not responsible for their content.
- For access to general information see Wikipedia
- For additional sources of general information from other websites search Google
- For access to relevant technical literature search Google Scholar
- For images search CalPhoto Images and Google Images
- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For additional information see AmphibiaWeb report
- For information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
- For information on distribution, habitat, and conservation see the Map of Life
- For related information on conservation and images as well as observations see iNaturalist
- For access to available specimen data for this species, from over 350 scientific collections, go to Vertnet.