Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Ambystoma cingulatum bishopi Goin, 1950, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 31: 300. Holotype: CM 29137, by original designation. Type locality: "about five miles north of Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida", USA.

Ambystoma bishopi — Pauly, Piskurek, and Shaffer, 2007, Mol. Ecol., 16: 415.

Linguaelapsus bishopi — Pauly, Piskurek, and Shaffer, 2007, Mol. Ecol., 16: 415.

English Names

Reticulated Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17).

Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 173; 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

Gulf coastal plain from the Mobile Bay region of southern Alabama, through the panhandle and southwestern Georgia to the Apalachicola River in northern Florida, USA.

Comment

See accounts by Martof, 1968, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 57: 1-2 (as Ambystoma cingulatum bishopi), and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 50. Pauly, Piskurek, and Shaffer, 2007, Mol. Ecol., 16: 415-429, provided evidence that Ambystoma cingulatum and Ambystoma bishopi are not conspecific.

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