Plethodon asupak Mead, Clayton, Nauman, Olson, and Pfrender, 2005

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Plethodon > Species: Plethodon asupak

Plethodon asupak Mead, Clayton, Nauman, Olson, and Pfrender, 2005, Herpetologica, 61: 169. Holotype: UMMZ 262026, by original designation. Type locality: "Muck-a-Much Creek (41.774° N, 123.031° W) above Scott Bar, Siskiyou County, California at the confluence of the Scot and Klamath Rivers".

Plethodon (Hightonia) asupakVieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632.

Common Names

Scott Bar Salamander (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 583; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 20; 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: 29; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 31).

Distribution

Known only from the vicinity of the type locality (Muck-a-Muck Creek above Scott Bar, Siskiyou County, 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

In the Plethodon elongatus group according to the original publication. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 583. Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 223, report the species in adjacent Oregon, USA, as well as California, but this appears to be in error. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 406, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 937–938, provided an account summarizing systematics, morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). 

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