Aneides Baird, 1851

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Aneides

Aneides Baird, 1851, Heck's Icon. Encycl. Sci. Lit. Art (Baird Transl.), 2: 257. Type species: Salamandra lugubris Hallowell, 1849, by monotypy. Alternative spelling of Anaides Baird, 1851.

Anaides Baird, 1851, Heck's Icon. Encycl. Sci. Lit. Art (Baird Transl.), 2: 256. Type species: Salamandra lugubris Hallowell, 1849, by monotypy. Junior homonym of Anaides Westwood, 1841 (Coleoptera). Anaides Baird, 1851, placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology by Opinion 377, Anonymous, 1956, Opin. Declar. Internatl. Comm. Zool. Nomencl., 11: 401-410.

Autodax Boulenger, 1887, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 5, 19: 67. Replacement name for Anaides Baird, 1851. Opinion 377, Anonymous, 1956, Opin. Declar. Internatl. Comm. Zool. Nomencl., 11: 401-410, placed Autodax on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology.

English Names

Climbing Salamanders (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 173; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 19; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 177; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 14; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 28; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 24).

Distribution

Pacific Coast of the western USA (except central coastal Washington, USA), and Vancouver I. in British Columbia, Canada, northern Baja California Norte (Mexico); Sacramento Mountains of New Mexico (USA); eastern USA in the Appalachian Mountains.

Comment

Reviewed by Wake, 1974, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 157: 1-2. Larson, Wake, Maxson, and Highton, 1981, Evolution, 35: 405-422, provided a cladogram of the species and a discussion that suggested that recognition of Aneides rendered Plethodon paraphyletic. Mahoney, 2001, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 18: 174-188, suggested that the molecular evidence for a monophyletic Aneides is weak and that Aneides is imbedded within Plethodon. Macey, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 194-202, considered Aneides to be the sister taxon of Hydromantes + Ensatina. Vieites, Min, and Wake, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 19903-19907, provided a tree of Aneides (within a larger study of plethodontid relationships) and regarded Aneides as the sister taxon of Desmognathus + Phaeognathus. See species accounts by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 310-325. In the tribe Aneidini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Powell, Collins, and Hooper, 2011, Key Herpetofauna U.S. & Canada, 2nd Ed.: 16-17, provided a key to the species although retaining Aneides iecanus within Aneides flavipunctatus.

Contained taxa

Aneides aeneus (Cope and Packard, 1881)
Aneides ferreus Cope, 1869
Aneides flavipunctatus (Strauch, 1870)
Aneides hardii (Taylor, 1941)
Aneides iecanus (Cope, 1883)
Aneides lugubris (Hallowell, 1849)
Aneides niger Myers and Maslin, 1948
Aneides vagrans Wake and Jackman, 1999

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