Ambystoma jeffersonianum

Ambystoma jeffersonianum

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 jeffersonianum

Name

Ambystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827)

Type locality: "Near Chartier's creek in the vicinity of Jefferson College [formerly] at Cannonsburg", Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Holotype: USNM 3968 ?

Synonyms

• Salamandra jeffersoniana Green, 1827
• Xiphonura jeffersoniana — Tschudi, 1838
• Salamandra granulata Holbrook, 1842
• Ambystoma jeffersoniana — Baird, 1850
• Ambystoma fuscum Hallowell, 1858
• Plethodon persimilis Gray, 1859
• Pectoglossa persimilis — Mivart, 1868
• Amblystoma jeffersonianum — Cope, 1868
• Amblystoma platineum Cope, 1868
• Amblystoma jeffersonianum var. fuscum — Cope, 1868
• Amblystoma persimile — Strauch, 1870
• Amblystoma jeffersonianum jeffersonianum — Cope, 1875
• Ambystoma jeffersonianum platineum — Fowler & Dunn, 1917
• Ambystoma jeffersonianum fuscum — Fowler & Dunn, 1917
• Ambystoma jeffersonianum — Dunn, 1918
• Amblystoma persimilis — Bourret, 1927
• Ambystoma tremblayi Comeau, 1943
• Ambystoma (Ambystoma) jeffersonianum — Tihen, 1958

References

• Green, 1827, Contrib. Maclurian Lyc. Arts Sci., 1: 4.
• Dunn, 1918, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 62: 458.
• 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 jeffersonianum . Accessed on 26 July 2008.
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Ambystoma jeffersonianum. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.

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

Vernacular names

English: Jefferson Salamander