Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Amblystoma annulatum Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 525. Holotype: USNM 11564 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 4. Type locality: "Unknown"; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 18, designated type locality as "vicinity of Hot Springs, [Garland County,] Arkansas", USA.

Linguaelapsus annulatus — Cope, 1887, Am. Nat., 21: 88. Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 115.

Ambystoma annulatum — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 8.

Ambystoma (Linguaelapsus) annulatum — Tihen, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 3, 43.

Linguaelapsus annulatum — Freytag, 1959, Vierteiljahrschrift Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 104: 88. Freytag, 1962, Aquar. Terrar. Z., 9: 173-176.

Ambystoma annulatum — Anderson, 1965, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 19: 1.

English Names

Ringed Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 115; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 173; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 252; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 4; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 27; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 5; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 18; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 13; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 10; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 23).

Distribution

Ozark region of central Missouri, central and western Arkansas, and eastern Oklahoma south to near the Texas border, USA.

Comment

See accounts by Anderson, 1965, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 19: 1-2, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 37. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 100-101; provided a brief account, figure, and map.

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