Speleomantes strinatii (Aellen, 1958)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Speleomantes > Species: Speleomantes strinatii

Hydromantes italicus strinatii Aellen, 1958, Senckenb. Biol., 39: 156. Holotype: MHNG 926.16, by original designation. Type locality: "grotte d'Aspremont, Alpes-Maritimes, France".

Hydromantes genei strinatii — Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 140.

Hydromantes italicus argentatus Stefani, 1969 "1968", Arch. Zool. Ital. Torino, 53: 226. Holotype: IZUG unnumbered, by original designation. Type locality: "Grotte [= Grotta] delle Ruccaie in Val Varatella presso Toirano (prov. Savona)", Italy. Synonymy by Lanza, Nascetti, and Bullini, 1982, Boll. Zool., Padua, 49 (Suppl.): 103. Synonymy with Hydromantes strinatii by Nascetti, Cimmaruta, Lanza, and Bullini, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 165.

Hydromantes italicus ligusticus Stefani, 1969 "1968", Arch. Zool. Ital. Torino, 53: 228. Holotype: IZUG unnumbered, by original designation. Type locality: "dintorni di Genova (Pertüzo do Paolin, Pertüzo do Canté) e Rapallo (Grotta Valdettaro)", Italy. Synonymy with Hydromantes ambrosii by Lanza, Nascetti, and Bullini, 1982, Boll. Zool., Padua, 49 (Suppl.): 103. Synonymy with Hydromantes strinatii by Nascetti, Cimmaruta, Lanza, and Bullini, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 165.

Hydromantes italicus bonzanoi Bruno and Bologna, 1973, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Milano, 114: 82. Types: MSNM unnumberd (Marco Bologna field no. 1271), by original designation; now MSNM Am 1325 according to Blackburn and Scali, 2014, Herpetol. Monogr., 28: 36. Type locality: "Grotta detta «Tana Ia du Casà » (537 Li);, 4° 30′27″ e 44° 00′ 12″; I. G. M.: F 91, Q II, S.E., Pieve di Teco. Situata sul versante Sud del Colle San Bartolomeo, nell'alta Valle del torrente Impero, nel comune di Caravonica, in provincia di Imperia, a m 12 s.l.m.", Liguria, Italy. Synonymy with Hydromantes ambrosii by Lanza, Nascetti, and Bullini, 1982, Boll. Zool., Padua, 49 (Suppl.): 103. Synonymy with Hydromantes strinatii by Nascetti, Cimmaruta, Lanza, and Bullini, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 165.

Hydromantes strinatii — Nascetti, Cimmaruta, Lanza, and Bullini, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 161–183.

Speleomantes strinatii — Thireau and Doré, 2000, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 125: 251; Thorn and Raffaëlli, 2000, Salamand. Ancien Monde: 368; Vieites, Min, and Wake, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 19904, and electronic supplemental data.

Hydromantes (Speleomantes) strinatii — Wake, Salvador, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 543–548; van der Meijden, Chiari, Mucedda, Carranza, Corti, and Veith, 2009, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 51: 401.

Speleomantes (Speleomantes) strinatii — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 77–161.

Speleomantes strinatii ligusticus — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 1020. Provisional arrangement. 

Speleomantes strinatii arentatus — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 1020. Provisional arrangement. 

Speleomantes strinatii strinatii — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 1020. Provisional arrangement. 

Common Names

Strinati's Cave Salamander (Lanza, Caputo, Nascetti, and Bullini, 1995, Monogr. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 16: 9).

Western Cave Salamander (Steward, 1969, Tailed Amph. Eur.: 40).

French Cave Salamander (Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 162).

Distribution

Maritime Alps of southeastern France and in Monaco and maritime northwestern Italy in southwestern and southeastern Piemonte and adjacent Liguria east to western Emilia Romagna and extreme northern Toscana, below 2500 m elevation; introduced population in Vienne County, France. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: France, Italy, Monaco

Introduced: France

Comment

Removed from the synonymy of Speleomantes ambrosii by Nascetti, Cimmaruta, Lanza, and Bullini, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 161-183, where it had been placed by Lanza, Nascetti, and Bullini, 1982, Boll. Zool., Padua, 49 (Suppl.): 103. See account by Bruno, 1973, Natura, Milano, 64: 385. See comment under Speleomantes ambrosii with which it has been confused in much literature. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 314-1, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Lanza, Pastorelli, Laghi, and Cimmaruta, 2006 "2005", Atti Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Trieste, 52 (Suppl.): 5-135, provided a review. See detailed account for the Italian population by Lanza, Pastorelli, Laghi, and Cimmaruta, 2007, in Lanza et al. (eds.), Fauna d'Italia, 42 (Amph.): 152-156. Renet, Tordjman, Gerriet, and Madelaine, 2012, Bull. Soc. Herpetol. France, 141: 3–22, discussed the range in France and Monaco. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 437–438, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Sparreboom, 2014, Salamanders Old World: 162–164, reviewed the biology, characteristics, distribution, reproduction, and conservation of the species. Cimmaruta, Lucente, and Nascetti, 2015, PLoS One, 10(6: e0131298): 1–21, discussed molecular phylogeography. Speybroeck, Beukema, Bok, and Van Der Voort, 2016, Field Guide Amph. Rept. Brit. Eur.: 106–107, provided a brief account and distribution map. See Dufresnes, 2019, Amph. Eur., N. Afr., & Middle East: 182, for brief summary of identifying morphology and biology, a range map, as well as a photograph. Lucente, Renet, Gailledrat, Tillet, Nascetti, and Cimmaruta, 2016, Herpetol. Bull., London, 138: 21–23, reported an introduced population in Vienne County, France. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 1017–1022, provided an account summarizing systematics (including noting possible subspecies), morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). 

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