Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Cryptobranchus Leuckart, 1821, Isis von Oken, 9: 259. Type species: Salamandra salamandroides Leuckart, 1821 (= Salamandra gigantea Barton, 1808, by monotypy. Placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 92, Anonymous, 1926, Smithson. Misc. Collect., 73: 3.

Urotropis Rafinesque, 1822, Kentucky Gazette, Lexington, N.S.,, 1: 3. Type species: Urotropis mucronata Rafinesque, 1822, by monotypy. Synonymy by Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 27.

Protonopsis LeConte, 1824, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1: 57. Type species: Salamandra horrida Barton, 1808, by monotypy. Synonymy with Menopoma by Harlan, 1827, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 320, and Guérin-Méneville, 1838, Icon. Regne Animal, 3: 18. Synonymy with Salamandrops by Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 209.

Abranchus Harlan, 1825, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1: 233. Type species: Salamandra alleganiensis Daudin, 1801, by monotypy. Preoccupied by Abranchus Hasselt, 1824. Synonymy with Menopoma by Harlan, 1827, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 320, and Guérin-Méneville, 1838, Icon. Regne Animal, 3: 18. Synonymy (with Protonopsis) by Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 209, and Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 53.

Menopoma Harlan, 1825, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1: 270. Substitute name for Abranchus Harlan, 1825. Synonymy with Cryptobranchus by Eichwald, 1831, Zool. Special.: 164. Synonymy (with Protonopsis) by Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 53.

Salamandrops Wagler, 1830, Nat. Syst. Amph.: 209. Type species: Salamandra gigantea Barton, 1808, by monotypy. Synonymy (with Protonopsis) by Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 53; (with Menopoma) by Guérin-Méneville, 1838, Icon. Regne Animal, 3: 18, and Baird, 1850 "1849", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 1: 289.

English Names

Hellbenders (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 196; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 5; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 6; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 20; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25).

Distribution

Southern New York to northern Maryland; southwestern New York to southeastern Missouri, northern Arkansas, extreme northern Mississippi, and in the Appalachian Mountains from northern Alabama to western Pennsylvania, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Dundee, 1971, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 101: 1. See comment under Andrias.

Contained taxa

• Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Daudin, 1803)

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