Hemidactyliinae

Hemidactylium scutatum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

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

Familia: Plethodontidae
Subfamilia: Hemidactyliinae
Genera (21): Aquiloeurycea – Batrachoseps – Bolitoglossa – Bradytriton – Chiropterotriton – Cryptotriton – Dendrotriton – Eurycea – Gyrinophilus – Hemidactylium – Isthmura – Ixalotriton – Nototriton – Nyctanolis – Oedipina – Parvimolge – Pseudoeurycea – Pseudotriton – Stereochilus – Thorius – Urspelerpes

Name

Hemidactyliinae Hallowell, 1856 [conserved name]

• Type genus: Hemidactylium Tschudi, 1838.
• Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology by Opinion 1873 (1997: 140).

Synonymy

• Mycetoglossina Bonaparte, 1850: 1
  • Type genus: Mycetoglossus Bonaparte, 1839.
  • Placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Family-Group Names in Zoology Family-Group Names in Zoology by Opinion 1873 (1997: 140).
• Hemidactylidae Hallowell, 1856: 11
• Hemidactyliini — Wake, 1966: 50
• Hemidactyliinae — Chippindale, Bonett, Baldwin & Wiens, 2004: 2819

References

Primary references

• Bonaparte, C.L. 1850. Conspectus systematum Herpetologiae et Amphibiologiae. Editio altera reformata. E. J. Brill: Lugduni Batavorum. 1 p. Reference page. 
• Hallowell, E. 1856. Description of several species of Urodela, with remarks on the geographical distribution of the Caducibranchiata Division of these animals and their classification. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 6–11. BHL
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1997. Opinion 1873. Hemidactyliini Hallowell, 1856 (Amphibia, Caudata): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 54(2): 140–141. BHL Reference page. 
• Chippindale, P.T., Bonett, R.M., Baldwin, A.S. & Wiens, J.J. 2004. Phylogenetic evidence for a major reversal of life-history evolution in plethodontid salamanders. Evolution 58(12): 2809–2822. DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01632.x Reference page. 

Additional references

• Macey, J.R. 2005. Plethodontid salamander mitochondrial genomics: A parsimony evaluation of character conflict and implications for historical biogeography. Cladistics 21(2): 194–202. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2005.00054.x Reference page. 
• Vieites, D.R., Min, M.-S. & Wake, D.B. 2007. Rapid diversification and dispersal during periods of global warming by plethodontid salamanders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(50): 19903–19907. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705056104 Reference page. 
• Camp, C.D., Peterman, W.E., Milanovich, J.R., Lamb, T., Maerz, J.C. & Wake, D.B. 2009. A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States. Journal of Zoology 279(1): 86–94. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00593.x ; ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Rovito, S.M., Parra-Olea, G., Recuero, E. & Wake, D.B. 2015. Diversification and biogeographical history of Neotropical plethodontid salamanders. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(1): 167–188. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12271 Reference page. 

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