Santa Cruz Black Salamander
Aneides niger
Myers and Maslin, 1948
ah-NIE-des — NEE-jer
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Elevated from the synonymy of A. flavipunctatus by Reilly and Wake (2019, PeerJ 7: e7370).
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Etymology:
Named for its uniformly black coloration.
Aneides — Greek an- = “not” + eidos = “form”
niger — Latin niger = “black” — refers to the species’ all-black appearance.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Black Salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus niger: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Santa Cruz Black Salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus niger: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1948
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Myers, George S. and T. Paul Maslin. The California plethodont salamander, Aneides flavipunctatus (Strauch), with description of a new subspecies and notes on other western Aneides. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 61:127–138
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1950
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Lowe, Charles H., Jr. The systematic status of the salamander Plethodon hardii, with a discussion of biogeographical problems in Aneides. Copeia 1950:92-99
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1974
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Wake, David B. Aneides. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (157):1-2
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2010
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Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
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2019
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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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