Atlantic Coast Slimy Salamander
Plethodon chlorobryonis
Mittleman, 1951
pleth-OH-don — klor-oh-brai-ON-is
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Grey spotted Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus: Hallowell, Edward. 1858. On the caducibranchiate uurodele batrachians. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Series 2 3():337-366); Viscid Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus: Jordan, David Starr. 1876. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.); Viscid Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus: Brimley, Clement S. 1896. Batrachia found at Raleigh, N. C. The American Naturalist 30():500-501); Carolina Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus chlorobryonis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Atlantic Coastal Slimy Salamander (Plethodon chlorobryonis: Highton, Richard. 1989. Part I: Geographic Protein Variation. Pages 2-79 in Biochemical evolution in the Slimy Salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus complex in the Eastern United States. Illinois Biological Monograph 57, . pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1951
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Mittleman, M. Budd. American Caudata. VII. Two new salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Herpetologica 7:105–112
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1956
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Highton, Richard. The relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainesville. 224pp.
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1962
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Highton, Richard. Revision of North American salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 6(3):235-267
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1979
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Highton, Richard and A. Larson. The genetic relationships of salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Systematic Zoology 28(4):579-599
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1979
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Maxson, Linda R., Richard Highton, and David B. Wake. Albumin evolution and its phylogenetic implications in the plethodontid salamander genera Plethodon and Ensatina. Copeia 1979(3):502-508
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1991
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Highton, Richard H. Molecular phylogeny of Plethodonine salamanders and Hylid frogs: Statistical analysis of protein comparisons. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(6):796-818
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1993
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Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
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2006
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Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Does niche conservatism promote speciation? A case study in North American salamanders. Evolution 60(12):2604-2621
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2006
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Kozak, Kenneth H., David W. Weisrock, and Allan Larson. Rapid lineage accumulation in a non-adaptive radiation: Phylogenetic analysis of diversification rates in eastern North American woodland salamanders (Plethodontidae: Plethodon). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2006(273):539-546
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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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2011
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Fisher-Reid, M. Caitlin and John J. Wiens. What are the consequences of combining nuclear and mitochondrial data for phylogenetic analysis? Lessons from Plethodon salamanders and 13 other vertebrate clades. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:1-20
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