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Amphibia    Caudata    Ambystomatidae  

Mabee's Salamander
Ambystoma mabeei Bishop, 1928
am-BIH-stoh-ma — may-BEE-ai

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.07.23.58.22)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: North Carolina South Carolina Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Mabee's Salamander (Ambystoma mabeei: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1928 Bishop, Sherman C. Notes on some amphibians and reptiles from the southeastern states with a description of a new salamander from North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 43:153–170
1958 Tihen, Joseph A. Comments on the osteology and phylogeny of ambystomatid salamanders. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3(1):1-50
1969 Tihen, Joseph A. Ambystoma. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (75):1-4
1970 Hardy, Jerry D., Jr. and Anderson, James D. Ambystoma mabeei. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (81):1-2
1974 Hardy, Jerry D., Jr. and J. Olmon. Restriction of the range of the frosted salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum based on a comparison of the larvae of Ambystoma cingulatum and Ambystoma mabeei. Herpetologica 30:156-160

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