Plethodontidae

Plethodon cinereus

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Navigazione: 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
Subfamiliae (2): Hemidactyliinae – Plethodontinae

Nome

Plethodontidae Gray, 1850: 31 [conserved name]

• Genere tipo: Plethodon Tschudi, 1838.
• Placed on the Official List of Family-Group Names in Zoology by Opinion 921 (1970: 79).

Riferimenti

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1850. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphibia in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Batrachia Gradientia, etc. Spottiswoodes and Shaw: London. 72 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. 1970. Opinion 921. Plethodontidae in Pisces and Amphibia: removal of homonymy under the Plenary Powers. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 27(2): 79–80. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• 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. 
• Mueller, R.L., Macey, J.R., Jaekel, M., Wake, D.B. & Boore, J.L. 2004. Morphological homoplasy, life history evolution, and historical biogeography of plethodontid salamanders inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101(38): 13820–13825. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0405785101 Reference page. 
• 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. 
• Min, M.S., Yang, S.Y., Bonett, R.M., Vieites, D.R., Brandon, R.A. & Wake, D.B. 2005. Discovery of the first Asian plethodontid salamander. Nature 435: 87–90. DOI: 10.1038/nature03474 Reference page. 
• Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., de Sá, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P.E., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. & Wheeler, W.C. 2006. The amphibian tree of life. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 297: 1–370. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2006)297[0001:TATOL]2.0.CO;2 ; hdl: 2246/5781 . 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. 
• Kozak, K.H., Mendyk, R.W. & Wiens, J.J. 2009. Can parallel diversification occur in sympatry? Repeated patterns of body-size evolution in co-existing clades of North American salamanders. Evolution 63(7): 1769–1784. DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00680.x Reference page. 
• Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39–55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  Reference page. 
• Pyron, R.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2,800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(2): 543–583. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.06.012 Reference page. 
• Vieites, D.R., Nieto-Román, S., Wake, M.H. & Wake, D.B. 2011. A multigenic perspective on phylogenetic relationships in the largest family of salamanders, the Plethodontidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(3): 623–635. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.012 Reference page. 
• Wake, D.B. 2012. Taxonomy of salamanders of the family Plethodontidae (Amphibia: Caudata). Zootaxa 3484(1): 75–82. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3484.1.5 Reference page. 
• Shen, X.-X., Liang, D., Chen, M.-Y., Mao, R.-L., Wake, D.B. & Zhang, P. 2016. Enlarged Multilocus Data set Provides Surprisingly Younger Time of Origin for the Plethodontidae, the Largest Family of Salamanders. Systematic Biology 65(1): 66–81. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv061 Reference page. 

Nomi comuni

беларуская: Бязлёгачныя саламандры
English: Lungless Salamanders
Nederlands: Longloze salamanders
polski: Salamandry bezpłucne
Türkçe: Akciğersiz semenderler

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