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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Klamath Black Salamander
Aneides klamathensis Reilly and Wake, 2019
ah-NIE-des — kla-muhth-EN-sis

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
New Species. Delimited from A. flavipunctatus by Reilly and Wake (2019, PeerJ 7: e7370).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: California Oregon

Etymology: Named for the Klamath Mountains.
Aneides — Greek an- = “not” + eidos = “form”
klamathensis — Latinized toponym from the Klamath region — -ensis = “from.”

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1950 Lowe, Charles H., Jr. The systematic status of the salamander Plethodon hardii, with a discussion of biogeographical problems in Aneides. Copeia 1950:92-99
1974 Wake, David B. Aneides. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (157):1-2
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2019 Reilly, Sean B. and David B. Wake. Taxonomic revision of black salamanders of the Aneides flavipunctatus complex (Caudata: Plethodontidae). PeerJ 7(7370):1–36.

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