Ambystoma tigrinum

Ambystoma tigrinum

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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 tigrinum

Name

Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)

Type locality: "near Moore's town [Moorestown, Burlington County,] in New Jersey", USA.

Holotype: USNM 3970.

Synonyms

• Siren operculata Palisot de Beauvois, 1799
• Proteus neocaesariensis Green, 1818
• Axolotus philadelphicus Jarocki, 1822
• Salamandra tigrina Green, 1825
• Salamandra ingens Green, 1831
• Salamandra lurida Sager, 1839
• Triton tigrinus — Holbrook, 1842
• Triton ingens — Holbrook, 1842
• Ambystoma tigrina — Baird, 1850
• Ambystoma lurida — Baird, 1850
• Ambystoma episcopus Baird, 1850
• Heterotriton ingens — Gray, 1850
• Proteus neocaesareanus — Gray, 1850
• Siredon harlanii Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
• Ambistoma tigrinum —Jan, 1857
• Ambystoma bicolor Hallowell, 1858
• Ambystoma ingens — Hallowell, 1858
• Amblystoma conspersum Cope, 1859
• Amblystoma prosperpine — Baird, 1859
• Amblystoma obscurum Baird in Cope, 1868
• Amblystoma xiphias Cope, 1868
• Amblystoma tigrinum — Boulenger, 1882
• Amblystoma bicolor — Boulenger, 1882
• Amblystoma conspersum — Boulenger, 1882
• Amblystoma copeianum Hay, 1885
• Ambystoma sopeanum — Brimley, 1907
• Ambystoma conspersum — Fowler & Dunn, 1917
• Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum — Dunn, 1940
• Ambystoma tigrinum proserpine — Smith & Taylor, 1948
• Ambystoma (Ambystoma) tigrinum — Tihen, 1958

References

• Green, 1825, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 116.
• Tihen, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 3.
• Spear, S.T., Peterson, C.R., Matocq, M.D. & Storfer, A. 2005: Landscape genetics of the blotched tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum). Molecular Ecology, 14: 2553–2564.
• 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 tigrinum . Accessed on 26 July 2008.
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Ambystoma tigrinum. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.

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

Vernacular names

English: Tiger Salamander
polski: Ambystoma tygrysia