Ambystoma maculatum

Ambystoma maculatum

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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 maculatum

Name

Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)

Type locality: "Carolina", USA.

Holotype: Based on Catesby, 1743, Nat. Hist. Carolina Florida Bahama Is., , Appendix: pl. 10, fig. 10..

Synonyms

• Salamandra punctata Lacépède, 1788
• Salamandra punctata Bonnaterre, 1789
• Salamandra palustris Bechstein, 1800
• Lacerta maculata Shaw, 1802
• Salamandra venenosa Daudin, 1803
• Lacerta subviolacea Barton, 1804
• Salamandra maculata — Green, 1818
• Salamandra subviolacea — Harlan, 1827
• Ambystoma subviolaceum — Tschudi, 1838
• Salamandroidis subviolacea — Fitzinger, 1843
• Ambystoma punctata — Baird, 1850
• Siredon maculatus — Baird, 1850
• Ambystoma carolinae Gray, 1850
• Salamandra argus Gray, 1850
• Ambystome argus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
• Salamandra margaritifera Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
• Ambistoma punctatum — Jan, 1857
• Camarataxis maculata — Cope, 1859
• Ambystoma carolina — Wood, 1863
• Salamandra maculata — Wied-Neuwied, 1865
• Amblystoma punctatum — Cope, 1868
• Amblystoma maculatum — Boulenger, 1882
• Ambystoma punctatum — Hay, 1892
• Ambystoma maculatum — Stejneger, 1902
• Ambystoma (Ambystoma) maculatum — Tihen, 1958

References

• Shaw, 1802, Gen. Zool., 3(1): 304.
• Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 38.
• 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 maculatum . Accessed on 26 July 2008.
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Ambystoma maculatum. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.

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

Vernacular names

English: Spotted Salamander
français: Salamandre maculée
Nederlands: Gevlekte molsalamander