Eurycea quadridigitata

Eurycea quadridigitata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Plethodontidae
Subfamilia: Hemidactyliinae
Genus: Eurycea
Species: Eurycea quadridigitata

Name

Eurycea quadridigitata (Holbrook, 1842)

Type locality: "... middle section of our state [South Carolina]... to the Gulf of Mexico... [also] specimens from Georgia, and... Florida";

Holotype: Specimen figured in pl. 21 of the original publication.

Synonyms

• Salamandra quadridigitata Holbrook, 1842
• Salamandra 4-digitata — Holbrook, 1842
• Batrachoseps quadridigitata — Baird, 1850
• Batrachoseps quadridigitatus — Gray, 1850
• Manculus quadridigitatus — Cope, 1869
• Manculus remifer Cope, 1871
• Batrachoseps quadridigitatus — Knauer, 1883
• Manculus quadridigitata — Garman, 1884
• Manculus quadridigitatus quadridigitatus — Stejneger & Barbour, 1923
• Eurycea quadridigitata quadridigitata — Dunn, 1923
• Eurycea quadridigitata remifera — Dunn, 1923
• Manculus quadridigitatus remifer — Stejneger & Barbour, 1923
• Eurycea quadridigitata remifer — Carr, 1940
• Eurycea quadridigitata — Wake, 1966
• Manculus quadridigitatus — Mittleman, 1967
• Eurycea (Eurycea) quadridigitata — Raffaëlli, 2007

References

• Holbrook, 1842, N. Am. Herpetol., Ed. 2, 5: 65.
• Wake, 1966, Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., 4: 64.
• 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. Eurycea quadridigitata
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Eurycea quadridigitata. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.
• 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species IUCN: Eurycea quadridigitata  (Least Concern) Downloaded on 5 August 2008.

Vernacular names

English: Dwarf Salamander