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Family Ambystomatidae - Mole Salamanders - Gray, 1850
  Ambystoma - Mole Salamanders - Tschudi, 1838
  A. annulatum - Ringed Salamander - Cope, 1886
  A. barbouri - Streamside Salamander - Kraus & Petranka, 1989
  A. bishopi - Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander - Goin, 1950
  A. californiense - California Tiger Salamander - Gray, 1853
  A. cingulatum - Frosted Flatwoods Salamander - Cope, 1867
  A. gracile - Northwestern Salamander - (Baird, 1857)
  A. jeffersonianum - Jefferson Salamander - (Green, 1827)
  A. laterale - Blue-spotted Salamander - Hallowell, 1856
  A. mabeei - Mabee's Salamander - Bishop, 1928
  A. macrodactylum - Long-toed Salamander - Baird, 1849
A. m. columbianum - Eastern Long-toed Salamander - Ferguson, 1961
A. m. croceum - Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander - Russell & Anderson, 1956
A. m. krausei - Northern Long-toed Salamander - Peters, 1882
A. m. macrodactylum - Western Long-toed Salamander - Baird, 1849
A. m. sigillatum - Southern Long-toed Salamander - Ferguson, 1961
  A. maculatum - Spotted Salamander - (Shaw, 1802)
  A. mavortium - Barred Tiger Salamander - Baird, 1850
A. m. diaboli - Gray Tiger Salamander - Dunn, 1940
A. m. mavortium - Barred Tiger Salamander - Baird, 1850
A. m. melanostictum - Blotched Tiger Salamander - (Baird, 1860)
A. m. nebulosum - Arizona Tiger Salamander - Hallowell, 1852
A. m. stebbinsi - Sonoran Tiger Salamander - Lowe, 1954
  A. opacum - Marbled Salamander - (Gravenhorst, 1807)
  A. talpoideum - Mole Salamander - (Holbrook, 1838)
  A. texanum - Smallmouth Salamander - (Matthes, 1855)
  A. tigrinum - Eastern Tiger Salamander - (Green, 1825)
 
Dicamptodon - Giant Salamanders - Strauch, 1870
  D. aterrimus - Idaho Giant Salamander - (Cope, 1867)
  D. copei - Cope's Giant Salamander - Nussbaum, 1970
  D. ensatus - California Giant Salamander - (Eschscholtz, 1833)
  D. tenebrosus - Pacific Giant Salamander - (Baird & Girard, 1852)

Family Amphiumidae - Amphiumas - Gray, 1825
  Amphiuma - Amphiumas - Garden, 1821
  A. means - Two-toed Amphiuma - Garden, 1821
  A. pholeter - One-toed Amphiuma - Neill, 1964
  A. tridactylum - Three-toed Amphiuma - Cuvier, 1827

Family Cryptobranchidae - Hellbenders - Fitzinger, 1825
  Cryptobranchus - Hellbenders - Leuckart, 1821
  C. alleganiensis - Hellbender - (Daudin, 1803)
C. a. alleganiensis - Eastern Hellbender - (Daudin, 1803)
C. a. bishopi - Ozark Hellbender - Grobman, 1943

Family Plethodontidae - Lungless Salamanders - Gray, 1850
  Aneides - Climbing Salamanders - Baird, 1849
  A. aeneus - Green Salamander - (Cope & Packard, 1881)
  A. ferreus - Clouded Salamander - Cope, 1869
  A. flavipunctatus - Speckled Black Salamander - (Strauch, 1870)
  A. hardii - Sacramento Mountain Salamander - (Taylor, 1941)
  A. lugubris - Arboreal Salamander - (Hallowell, 1849)
  A. niger - Santa Cruz Black Salamander - Myers & Maslin, 1948
  A. vagrans - Wandering Salamander - (Wake & Jackman, 1999)
 
Batrachoseps - Slender Salamanders - Bonaparte, 1841
  B. attenuatus - California Slender Salamander - (Eschscholtz, 1833)
  B. campi - Inyo Mountains Salamander - Marlow, Brode & Wake, 1979
  B. diabolicus - Hell Hollow Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Wake & Yanev, 1998
  B. gabrieli - San Gabriel Slender Salamander - Wake, 1996
  B. gavilanensis - Gabilan Mountains Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Yanev & Wake, 2001
  B. gregarius - Gregarious Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Wake & Yanev 1998
  B. incognitus - San Simeon Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Yanev & Wake, 2001
  B. kawia - Sequoia Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Wake & Yanev, 1998
  B. luciae - Santa Lucia Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Yanev & Wake, 2001
  B. major - Garden Slender Salamander - Camp, 1915
  B. minor - Lesser Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Yanev & Wake, 2001
  B. nigriventris - Blackbelly Slender Salamander - Cope, 1869
  B. pacificus - Channel Islands Slender Salamander - (Cope, 1865)
  B. regius - Kings River Slender Salamander - Jockusch, Wake & Yanev, 1998
  B. relictus - Relictual Slender Salamander - Brame & Murray, 1968
  B. robustus - Kern Plateau Salamander - Wake, Yanev, and Hansen, 2002
  B. simatus - Kern Canyon Slender Salamander - Brame & Murray, 1968
  B. stebbinsi - Tehachapi Slender Salamander - Brame & Murray, 1968
  B. wrightorum - Oregon Slender Salamander - (Bishop, 1937)
 
Desmognathus - Dusky Salamanders - Baird, 1850
  D. abditus - Cumberland Dusky Salamander - Anderson & Tilley, 2003
  D. aeneus - Seepage Salamander - Brown & Bishop, 1947
  D. apalachicolae - Apalachicola Dusky Salamander - Means & Karlin, 1989
  D. auriculatus - Southern Dusky Salamander - (Holbrook, 1838)
  D. brimleyorum - Ouachita Dusky Salamander - Stejneger, 1894
  D. carolinensis - Carolina Dusky Salamander - (Dunn, 1916)
  D. conanti - Spotted Dusky Salamander - Rossman, 1958
  D. folkertsi - Dwarf Blackbelly Salamander - Camp, Tilley, Austin & Marshall, 2002
  D. fuscus - Northern Dusky Salamander - (Rafinesque, 1820)
  D. imitator - Imitator Salamander - Dunn, 1927
  D. marmoratus - Shovelnose Salamander - (Moore, 1899)
  D. monticola - Seal Salamander - Dunn, 1916
  D. ochrophaeus - Allegheny Dusky Salamander - Cope, 1859
  D. ocoee - Ocoee Salamander - Nicholls, 1949
  D. orestes - Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander - Tilley & Mahoney, 1996
  D. quadramaculatus - Common Blackbelly Salamander - (Holbrook, 1840)
  D. santeetlah - Santeetlah Dusky Salamander - Tilley, 1981
  D. welteri - Black Mountain Salamander - Barbour, 1950
  D. wrighti - Pigmy Salamander - King, 1936
 
Ensatina - Ensatinas - Gray, 1850
  E. eschscholtzii - Common Ensatina - Gray, 1850
E. e. croceater - Yellow-blotched Ensatina - (Cope, 1867)
E. e. eschscholtzii - Monterey Ensatina - Gray, 1850
E. e. oregonensis - Oregon Ensatina - (Girard, 1856)
E. e. picta - Painted Ensatina - Wood, 1940
E. e. platensis - Sierra Nevada Ensatina - (Espada, 1875)
E. e. xanthoptica - Yellow-eyed Ensatina - Stebbins, 1949
  E. klauberi - Large-blotched Ensatina - Dunn, 1929
 
Eurycea - Brook & Cave Stream Salamanders - Rafinesque, 1822
  E. aquatica - Brownback Salamander - Rose & Bush, 1963
  E. bislineata - Northern Two-lined Salamander - (Green, 1818)
  E. chamberlaini - Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander - Harrison & Guttman 2003
  E. chisholmensis - Chisholm Trail Salamander - Chippindale, Price, Wiens & Hillis 2000
  E. cirrigera - Southern Two-lined Salamander - (Green, 1830)
  E. guttolineata - Three-lined Salamander - (Holbrook, 1838)
  E. junaluska - Junaluska Salamander - Sever, Dundee & Sullivan, 1976
  E. latitans - Cascade Caverns Salamander - Smith & Potter, 1946
  E. longicauda - Longtail Salamander - (Green, 1818)
E. l. longicauda - Longtail Salamander - (Green, 1818)
E. l. melanopleura - Dark-sided Salamander - (Cope, 1893)
  E. lucifuga - Cave Salamander - Rafinesque, 1822
  E. multiplicata - Many-ribbed Salamander - (Cope, 1869)
  E. nana - San Marcos Salamander - Bishop, 1941
  E. naufragia - San Gabriel Springs Salamander - Chippindale, Price, Wiens & Hillis 2000
  E. neotenes - Texas Salamander - Bishop & Wright, 1937
  E. pterophila - Fern Bank Salamander - Burger, Smith & Potter, 1950
  E. quadridigitata - Coastal Plain Dwarf Salamander - (Holbrook, 1842)
  E. rathbuni - Texas Blind Salamander - (Stejneger, 1896)
  E. robusta - Blanco Blind Salamander - (Longley, 1978)
  E. sosorum - Barton Springs Salamander - Chippindale, Price & Hillis, 1993
  E. spelaea - Grotto Salamander - (Stejneger, 1892)
  E. tonkawae - Jollyville Plateau Salamander - Chippindale, Price, Wiens & Hillis, 2000
  E. tridentifera - Comal Blind Salamander - Mitchell & Reddell, 1965
  E. troglodytes - Valdina Farms Salamander - Baker, 1957
  E. tynerensis - Oklahoma Salamander - Moore & Hughes, 1939
  E. wallacei - Georgia Blind Salamander - (Carr, 1939)
  E. waterlooensis - Austin Blind Salamander - Hillis, Chamberlain,
Wilcox & Chippindale 2001

  E. wilderae - Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander - Dunn, 1920
 
Gyrinophilus - Spring Salamanders - Cope, 1869
  G. gulolineatus - Berry Cave Salamander - Brandon, 1965
  G. palleucus - Tennessee Cave Salamander - McCrady, 1954
G. p. necturoides - Big Mouth Cave Salamander - Lazell & Brandon, 1962
G. p. palleucus - Pale Salamander - McCrady, 1954
  G. porphyriticus - Spring Salamander - (Green, 1827)
G. p. danielsi - Blue Ridge Spring Salamander - (Blatchley, 1900)
G. p. dunni - Carolina Spring Salamander - Mittleman & Jopson, 1941
G. p. duryi - Kentucky Spring Salamander - (Weller, 1930)
G. p. porphyriticus - Northern Spring Salamander - (Green, 1827)
  G. subterraneus - West Virginia Spring Salamander - Besharse & Holsinger, 1977
 
Hemidactylium - Four-toed Salamander - Tschudi, 1838
  H. scutatum - Four-toed Salamander - (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
 
Hydromantes - Web-toed Salamanders - Gistel, 1848
  H. brunus - Limestone Salamander - Gorman, 1954
  H. platycephalus - Mount Lyell Salamander - (Camp, 1916)
  H. shastae - Shasta Salamander - Gorman & Camp, 1953
 
Phaeognathus - Red Hills Salamander - Highton, 1961
  P. hubrichti - Red Hills Salamander - Highton, 1961
 
Plethodon - Woodland Salamanders - Tschudi, 1838
  P. ainsworthi - Bay Springs Salamander - Lazell, 1998
  P. albagula - Western Slimy Salamander - Grobman, 1944
  P. amplus - Blue Ridge Graycheek Salamander - Highton & Peabody, 2000
  P. angusticlavius - Ozark Zigzag Salamander - Grobman, 1944
  P. asupak - Scott Bar Salamander - Mead, Clayton, Nauman, Olson, & Pfrender, 2005
  P. aureolus - Tellico Salamander - Highton, 1983
  P. caddoensis - Caddo Mountain Salamander - Pope & Pope, 1951
  P. chattahoochee - Chattahoochee Slimy Salamander - Highton, 1989
  P. cheoah - Cheoah Bald Salamander - Highton & Peabody, 2000
  P. chlorobryonis - Atlantic Coast Slimy Salamander - Mittleman, 1951
  P. cinereus - Northern Redback Salamander - (Green, 1818)
  P. cylindraceus - White-Spotted Slimy Salamander - (Harlan, 1825)
  P. dorsalis - Northern Zigzag Salamander - Cope, 1889
  P. dunni - Dunn's Salamander - Bishop, 1934
  P. electromorphus - Northern Ravine Salamander - Highton, 1999
  P. elongatus - Del Norte Salamander - Van Denburgh, 1916
  P. fourchensis - Fourche Mountain Salamander - Duncan & Highton, 1979
  P. glutinosus - Northern Slimy Salamander - (Green, 1818)
  P. grobmani - Southeastern Slimy Salamander - Allen & Neill, 1949
  P. hoffmani - Valley & Ridge Salamander - Highton, 1971
  P. hubrichti - Peaks of Otter Salamander - Thurow, 1957
  P. idahoensis - Coeur d'Alene Salamander - Slater & Slipp, 1940
  P. jordani - Jordan's Redcheek Salamander - Blatchley, 1900
  P. kentucki - Cumberland Plateau Salamander - Mittleman, 1951
  P. kiamichi - Kiamichi Slimy Salamander - Highton, 1989
  P. kisatchie - Louisiana Slimy Salamander - Highton, 1989
  P. larselli - Larch Mountain Salamander - Burns, 1954
  P. meridianus - South Mountain Graycheek Salamander - Highton & Peabody, 2000
  P. metcalfi - Southern Graycheek Salamander - Brimley, 1912
  P. mississippi - Mississippi Slimy Salamander - Highton, 1989
  P. montanus - Northern Graycheek Salamander - Highton & Peabody, 2000
  P. neomexicanus - Jemez Mountains Salamander - Stebbins & Riemer, 1950
  P. nettingi - Cheat Mountain Salamander - Green, 1938
  P. ocmulgee - Ocmulgee Slimy Salamander - Highton, 1989
  P. ouachitae - Rich Mountain Salamander - Dunn & Heinze, 1933
  P. petraeus - Pigeon Mountain Salamander - Wynn, Highton & Jacobs, 1988
  P. punctatus - White-spotted Salamander - Highton, 1971
  P. richmondi - Southern Ravine Salamander - Netting & Mittleman, 1938
  P. savannah - Savannah Slimy Salamander - Highton, 1989
  P. sequoyah - Sequoyah Slimy Salamander - Highton, 1989
  P. serratus - Southern Redback Salamander - Grobman, 1944
  P. shenandoah - Shenandoah Salamander - Highton & Worthington, 1967
  P. sherando - Big Levels Salamander - Highton, 2004
  P. shermani - Red-legged Salamander - Brimley, 1912
  P. stormi - Siskiyou Mountains Salamander - Highton & Brame, 1965
  P. teyahalee - Southern Appalachian Salamander - Hairston, 1950
  P. vandykei - Van Dyke's Salamander - Van Denburgh, 1906
  P. variolatus - South Carolina Slimy Salamander - (Gilliams, 1818)
  P. vehiculum - Western Redback Salamander - (Cooper, 1860)
  P. ventralis - Southern Zigzag Salamander - Highton, 1997
  P. virginia - Shenandoah Mountain Salamander - Highton, 1999
  P. websteri - Webster's Salamander - Highton, 1979
  P. wehrlei - Wehrle's Salamander - Fowler & Dunn, 1917
  P. welleri - Weller's Salamander - Walker, 1931
  P. yonahlossee - Yonahlossee Salamander - Dunn, 1917
 
Pseudotriton - Red & Mud Salamanders - Tschudi, 1838
  P. diastictus - Midland Mud Salamander - Bishop, 1941
  P. montanus - Eastern Mud Salamander - Baird, 1849
P. m. flavissimus - Gulf Coast Mud Salamander - Hallowell, 1856
P. m. floridanus - Rusty Mud Salamander - Netting & Goin, 1942
P. m. montanus - Eastern Mud Salamander - Baird, 1849
  P. ruber - Red Salamander - (Latreille, 1801)
P. r. nitidus - Blue Ridge Red Salamander - Dunn, 1920
P. r. ruber - Northern Red Salamander - (Latreille, 1801)
P. r. schencki - Blackchin Red Salamander - (Brimley, 1912)
P. r. vioscai - Southern Red Salamander - Bishop, 1928
 
Stereochilus - Many-lined Salamander - Cope, 1869
  S. marginatus - Many-lined Salamander - (Hallowell, 1856)
 
Urspelerpes - Patchnose Salamanders - Camp, Peterman, Milanovich,  
Lamb, Maerz & Wake, 2009
  U. brucei - Patchnose Salamander - Camp, Peterman, Milanovich,
Lamb, Maerz & Wake, 2009


Family Proteidae - Mudpuppies and Waterdogs - Gray, 1825
  Necturus - Waterdogs & Mudpuppies - Rafinesque, 1819
  N. alabamensis - Black Warrior Waterdog - Viosca, 1937
  N. beyeri - Gulf Coast Waterdog - Viosca, 1937
  N. lewisi - Neuse River Waterdog - Brimley, 1924
  N. louisianensis - Red River Mudpuppy - Viosca, 1938
  N. maculosus - Common Mudpuppy - (Rafinesque, 1818)
  N. punctatus - Dwarf Waterdog - (Gibbes, 1850)

Family Rhyacotritonidae - Torrent Salamanders - Tihen, 1958
  Rhyacotriton - Torrent Salamanders - Dunn, 1920
  R. cascadae - Cascades Torrent Salamander - Good & Wake, 1992
  R. kezeri - Columbia Torrent Salamander - Good & Wake, 1992
  R. olympicus - Olympic Torrent Salamander - (Gaige, 1917)
  R. variegatus - Southern Torrent Salamander - Stebbins & Lowe, 1951

Family Salamandridae - Newts - Goldfuss, 1820
  Notophthalmus - Eastern Newts - Rafinesque, 1820
  N. meridionalis - Black-Spotted Newt - (Cope, 1880)
N. m. meridionalis - Texas Black-Spotted Newt - (Cope, 1880)
  N. perstriatus - Striped Newt - (Bishop, 1941)
  N. viridescens - Eastern Newt - (Rafinesque, 1820)
N. v. dorsalis - Broken-striped Newt - (Harlan, 1828)
N. v. louisianensis - Central Newt - (Wolterstorff, 1914)
N. v. piaropicola - Peninsula Newt - (Schwartz & Duellman, 1952)
N. v. viridescens - Red-Spotted Newt - (Rafinesque, 1820)
 
Taricha - Pacific Newts - Gray, 1850
  T. granulosa - Roughskin Newt - (Skilton, 1849)
T. g. granulosa - Northern Roughskin Newt - (Skilton, 1849)
T. g. mazamae - Crater Lake Newt - (Myers, 1942)
  T. rivularis - Redbelly Newt - (Twitty, 1935)
  T. sierrae - Sierra Newt - (Twitty, 1942)
  T. torosa - California Newt - (Rathke, 1833)

Family Sirenidae - Sirens - Gray, 1825
  Pseudobranchus - Dwarf Sirens - Gray, 1825
  P. axanthus - Southern Dwarf Siren - Netting & Goin, 1942
P. a. axanthus - Narrow-striped Dwarf Siren - Netting & Goin, 1942
P. a. belli - Everglades Dwarf Siren - Schwartz, 1952
  P. striatus - Northern Dwarf Siren - (LeConte, 1824)
P. s. lustricolus - Gulf Hammock Dwarf Siren - Neill, 1951
P. s. spheniscus - Slender Dwarf Siren - Goin & Crenshaw, 1949
P. s. striatus - Broad-striped Dwarf Siren - (LeConte, 1824)
 
Siren - Sirens - Linnaeus, 1766
  S. intermedia - Lesser Siren - Barnes, 1826
S. i. intermedia - Eastern Lesser Siren - Barnes, 1826
S. i. nettingi - Western Lesser Siren - Goin, 1942
  S. lacertina - Greater Siren - Linnaeus, 1766
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