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