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Pseudotriton Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 60. Type species: Salamandra subfusca Green, 1818 (= Salamandra rubra Latreille, 1801), by monotypy.

Mycetoglossus Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): unnumbered. Substitute name for Pseudotriton Tschudi, 1838. Suppressed for purposes of the Principle of Priority but not for those of the Principle of Homonymy by Opinion 1873, Anonymous, 1997, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 54: 140-141. Synonymy by Hallowell, 1858, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 3: 347.

Batrachopsis Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 34. Substitute name for Pseudotriton Tschudi, 1838.

Pelodytes Gistel, 1848, Naturgesch. Thierr.: xi. Substitute name for Pseudotriton Tschudi, 1838). Not Pelodytes Fitzinger, 1843 (a frog).

English Names

Red Salamanders (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 29; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 22; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31).

Mud Salamanders (Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 29; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 22; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31).

Distribution

New York to Florida and west to southern Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and to eastern Louisiana in the Gulf coastal plain, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Martof, 1975, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 165: 1-2. See species accounts by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 295-304. Chippindale, Bonett, Baldwin, and Wiens, 2004, Evolution, 58: 2809-2822, and Macey, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 194-202, regarded Gyrinophilus + Stereochilus as the sister taxon of Pseudotriton. R. Highton in Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 173, suggested that the species taxonomy is in need of revision. In the tribe Spelerpini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Powell, Collins, and Hooper, 2011, Key Herpetofauna U.S. & Canada, 2nd Ed.: 16, provided a key to the species.

Contained taxa

• Pseudotriton diastictus Bishop, 1941
• Pseudotriton montanus Baird, 1850
• Pseudotriton ruber (Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801)

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