Climbing salamander

Climbing salamanders
Aneides lugubris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Amphibia
Order:Urodela
Family:Plethodontidae
Subfamily:Plethodontinae
Genus:Aneides
Baird, 1851
Species

See table

Synonyms[1]

Anaides Baird, 1851 — junior homonym of Anaides Westwood, 1841 (Coleoptera)
Autodax Boulenger, 1887 — replacement name for Anaides Baird, 1851

Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides.[1] As this name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are as mobile up a tree as in a stream. All six species inhabit mountain ecosystems, and all but two are found primarily in the mountains of California.

Species

Eight species are assigned to this genus:[1]

ImageBinomial Name and AuthorCommon Name
Aneides aeneus
(Cope and Packard, 1881)		Green salamander
Aneides ferreus
Cope, 1869		Clouded salamander
Aneides flavipunctatus
(Strauch, 1870)		Black salamander
Aneides hardii
(Taylor, 1941)		Sacramento Mountain salamander
Aneides iecanus
(Cope, 1883)		Shasta salamander
Aneides lugubris
(Hallowell, 1849)		Arboreal salamander
Aneides niger
Myers and Maslin, 1948		Santa Cruz black salamander
Aneides vagrans
Wake and Jackman, 1999		Wandering salamander

The AmphibiaWeb does not recognize Aneides iecanus nor Aneides niger and instead treats them as subspecies of Aneides flavipunctatus, hence listing only six species.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Aneides Baird, 1851". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Plethodontidae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2017.


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