Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Salamandra talpoidea Holbrook, 1838, N. Am. Herpetol., 3: 117. Type(s): Specimen figured on pl. 29 of the original; not known to still exist. Type locality: "sea islands on the borders of South Carolina", USA.

Ambystoma ? talpoideum — Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 36.

Amblystoma talpoideum — Cope, 1868 "1867", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 19: 172.

Ambystoma talpoideum — Hay, 1892, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1891: 582.

Ambystoma (Ambystoma) talpoideum — Tihen, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 3, 38.

English Names

Tadpole Salamander (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 20).

Mole Salamander (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 194; Davis and Rice, 1883, Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1: 26; Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 152; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 151; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 21; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 250; 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: 14; 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: 24).

Distribution

East Texas to northern Florida north to southeastern Missouri, extreme southern Illinois and extreme southwestern Indiana, western Kentucky and (in isolated populations) to central Virginia, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Shoop, 1964, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 8: 1-2, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 96, who suggested that additional study might document that the Atlantic Coast and Gulf Coast populations were different species. Williams and MacGowan, 2004, Herpetol. Rev., 35: 279, reported a locality in Indiana. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 92, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Robison and Winters, 1978, Herpetol. Rev., 9: 21, provided an extension in Arkansas.

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• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
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