Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Amphiuma pholeter Neill, 1964, Herpetologica, 20: 62. Holotype: FSM 17655 (formerly W.T. Neill US2675), by original designation. Type locality: "4.5 miles NE by E Rosewood, Levy County, Florida", USA.

English Names

One-toed Amphiuma (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 246; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 4; 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: 19; 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).

One-toed Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 27).

Distribution

Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain in the southeastern USA, from extreme southeastern Mississippi west of Mobile Bay, Alabama, to Levy and Hernando counties on the upper west coast of peninsular Florida, and in the upper Ochlockonee River basin of southern Georgia.

Comment

Reviewed by Means, 1996, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 622: 1-2. Graham, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 231, provided a new Alabama record and discussed its range in that state. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 636.

External Links

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• To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
• For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
• For further information on conservation status and distribution see the IUCN Redlist
• For related information on conservation and images as well as observation see iNaturalist;
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