Ambystoma gracile

Ambystoma gracile

Taxonavigation

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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Cladus: Chordata Craniata
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Superclassis: Tetrapoda
Classis: Amphibia
Subclassis: Lissamphibia
Ordo: Urodela
Subordo: Salamandroidea
Familia: Ambystomatidae
Genus: Ambystoma
Species: Ambystoma gracile

Name

Ambystoma gracile (Baird, 1859)

Type locality: "Cascade Mountains, near latitude 40° [N.]", Oregon, USA.

Syntypes: USNM 4080 (2 larval specimens).

Synonyms

• Siredon gracilis Baird, 1859
• Amblystoma paroticum Baird in Cope, 1868
• Amblystoma decorticatum Cope, 1886
• Chondrotus paroticus — Cope, 1887
• Chondrotus decorticatus — Cope, 1887
• Ambystoma decorticatum — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917
• Ambystoma gracile — Dunn, 1926
• Ambystoma gracile gracile — Dunn, 1944
• Ambystoma gracile decorticatum — Dunn, 1944
• Ambystoma (Ambystoma) gracile — Tihen, 1958

References

• Baird, 1859, Rep. Upon Explor Surv. Route Railroad Mississippi-Pacific Ocean, 10(Part 4, No. 4): 13.
• Tihen, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 3, 39.
• Frost, Darrel R. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at [1] American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Ambystoma gracile . Accessed on 26 July 2008.
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Ambystoma gracile. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.

• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN link: Ambystoma gracile (Least Concern) Downloaded on 26 July 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Northwestern Salamander