Ambystoma gracile

Ambystoma gracile

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Amorphea Cladus: Obazoa Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Cladus: Filozoa Cladus: Choanozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Cladus: Eugnathostomata Cladus: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Cladus: Stegocephali Cladus: Tetrapoda Cladus: Batrachomorpha Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Superordo: Batrachia Cladus: Caudata 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, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Ambystoma gracile Reference page. 
• 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: Ambystoma gracile  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 26 July 2008.

Vernacular names

• English: Northwestern Salamander