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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Del Norte Salamander
Plethodon elongatus Van Denburgh, 1916
pleth-OH-don — ee-laan-GAW-tus

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: 2023.04.10.09.27.04)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: California Oregon

First instance(s) of published English names:
Del Norte Salamander (Plethodon elongatus: 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:
1916 Van Denburgh, J. Four species of salamanders new to the state of California, with a description of Plethodon elongatus, a new species, and notes on other salamanders. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series 6:215–221
1934 Wood, W. F. Notes on the salamander, Plethodon elongatus. Copeia 1934:191
1947 Stebbins, Robert C. and Harold C. Reynolds. Southern extension of the range of the Del Norte Salamander in California. Herpetologica 4(2):41-42
1956 Highton, Richard. The relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainesville. 224pp.
1962 Highton, Richard. Revision of North American salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 6(3):235-267
1971 Brodie, Edmund D., Jr. and Storm, Robert M. Plethodon elongatus Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (102):1-2
1979 Highton, Richard and A. Larson. The genetic relationships of salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Systematic Zoology 28(4):579-599
1979 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
1991 Highton, Richard H. Molecular phylogeny of Plethodonine salamanders and Hylid frogs: Statistical analysis of protein comparisons. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(6):796-818
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
1994 Diller, Lowell V. and R. L. Wallace. Distribution and habitat of Plethodon elongatus on managed, young growth forests in north coastal California. Journal of Herpetology 28(3):310-318
2006 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
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2011 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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