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Ambystoma mabeei Bishop, 1928

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Ambystomatidae > Genus: Ambystoma

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Ambystoma mabeei Bishop, 1928, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 43: 157. Holotype: USNM 75058, by original designation. Type locality: "low grounds of the Black River near Dunn, [Harnett County,] N[orth]. C[arolina].", USA.

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

Linguaelapsus mabeei — Freytag, 1959, Vierteiljahrschrift Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 104: 79-89.

Ambystoma mabeei — Hardy and Anderson, 1970, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 81: 1.

English Names

Mabee's Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 136; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 20; 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: 253; 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; 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

Coastal plain of southeastern Virginia, eastern North Carolina and eastern South Carolina to near the Georgia line, USA.

Comment

See accounts by Hardy and Anderson, 1970, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 81: 1-2; Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 68; and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 99-100.

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