Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)
Salamandra texana Matthes, 1855, Allg. Deutsche Naturhist. Zeitung,, N.S.,, 1: 266. Syntypes: Including NHMW 22920, according to Häupl and Tiedemann, 1978, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 2: 13, and Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 17. Type locality: "Das erste Exemplar fand ich . . . im Urwalde am Rio Colorado, das zweite ebenfalls . . . im Cumming's Creeck [sic] Bottom, Fayette County" (= Rio Colorado and Cumming's Creek Bottom, Fayette County, Texas, USA; restricted to "Rio Colorado bottom land", Texas, USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 21. Data with NHMW syntype is "Texas", according to Häupl, Tiedemann, and Grillitsch, 1994, Kat. Wiss. Samml. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, 9: 17.
Amblystoma texanum — Baird, 1859, Rep. U.S-Mex. Bound. Surv., 2(Pt. 2-Rept.): 29. Cope, 1868 "1867", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 19: 204.
Amblystoma microstomum Cope, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 13: 123. Holotype: ANSP 1285 according to Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 10; ANSP 2286, according to Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 348. Type locality: "Ohio", USA (? Wabash River, Indiana, USA; see Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69:11). See Anderson, 1967: 37.2 for comments. Synonymy by Strecker and Williams, 1928, Contr. Baylor Univ. Mus., 17: 3-19.
Chondrotus microstomus — Cope, 1887, Am. Nat., 21: 88. by implication; Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 99, 101.
Chondrotus texanus — Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 99, 104.
Ambystoma texanum — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 12.
Ambystoma microstomum — Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 11.
Ambystoma schmidti Taylor, 1939 "1938", Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., 25: 263. Holotype: EHT-HMS 3999, by original designation; now UIMNH 25042 according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 140. Type locality: "10 miles east of San Martín (Asuncion) at Rancho Guadalupe", México, Mexico (in error). Synonymy by Kraus and Nussbaum, 1989, J. Herpetol., 23: 78-79.
Ambystoma (Linguaelapsus) schmidti — Tihen, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 3, 43.
Linguaelapsus schmidti — Freytag, 1959, Vierteiljahrschrift Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 104: 79-89.
Linguaelapsus texanus — Freytag, 1959, Vierteiljahrschrift Naturforsch. Ges. Zürich, 104: 79-89.
Ambystoma nothagenes Kraus, 1985, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 709: 14. Holotype: UMMZ 176237, by original designation. Type locality: "Kelley's Island, Erie County, Ohio", USA. Synonymy by Bogart, Lowcock, Zeyl, and Mable, 1987, Canad. J. Zool., 65: 2188-2201, who considered this named based on nonparthenogenetic hybrids of Ambystoma texanum x Ambystoma laterale.
Ambystoma nothogenes — Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 27. Misspelling.
English Names
Texas Salamander (Ambystoma texanum: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 21; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 155).
Texan Salamander (Ambystoma texanum: Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 56; Smith, 1934, Am. Midl. Nat., 15: 396).
Small-mouthed Salamander (Ambystoma texanum: Smith, 1934, Am. Midl. Nat., 15: 396; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 155; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 21; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 253; 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; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 24).
Narrow-mouthed Salamander (Ambystoma texanum: Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 9).
Smallmouth Salamander (Ambystoma texanum: 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; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 10).
Porphyry Salamander (Ambystoma microstomum [no longer recognized]: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 21).
Small-mouthed Salamander (Ambystoma microstomum [no longer recognized]: Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 196; Hay, 1892, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1891: 427; Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 56).
Kelley's Island Salamander (Ambystoma nothagenes: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 27).
Distribution
From eastern Ohio and western Kentucky west to southern Iowa and south to eastern Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and northwestern Alabama, USA; and from Pelee I. of Ontario, Canada.
Comment
Reviewed by Anderson, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 37: 1-2 (including Ambystoma barbouri populations at that time), and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 103. Morris and Brandon, 1984, Copeia, 1984: 324-337, reported on sexual parasitism by polyploids tentatively identified as Ambystoma platineum. Bogart, 2003, in Sever (ed.), Reprod. Biol. Phylogeny Urodela: 109-134, discussed complex hybridization with Ambystoma jeffersonianum, Ambystoma laterale, and Ambystoma tigrinum. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 98-99, provided a brief account, figure, and map.
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