Gyrinophilus Cope, 1869

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Gyrinophilus

Gyrinophilus Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 108-109. Type species: Salamandra porphyritica Green, 1827, by monotypy.

English Names

Purple Salamanders (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 194; Fowler, 1907, Annu. Rep. N.J. State Mus. for 1906: 62).

Spring Salamanders (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 24; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 19; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 28).

Cave Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31).

Distribution

Appalachian uplift of the eastern USA and adjacent Canada.

Comment

See revision by Brandon, 1966, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 35: 1081. See also account by Brandon, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 31: 1-2. Grobman, 1959, Copeia, 1959: 60-63, suggested that Gyrinophilus should be included in the genus Pseudotriton Tschudi, 1838, but this was rejected by Martof and Rose, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 727-732, and Wake, 1966, Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., 4: 63. See species accounts by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 280-288. Chippindale, Bonett, Baldwin, and Wiens, 2004, Evolution, 58: 2809-2822, and Macey, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 194-202, regarded Gyrinophilus as the sister taxon of Stereochilus. Powell, Collins, and Hooper, 2011, Key Herpetofauna U.S. & Canada, 2nd Ed.: 15, provided a key to the species.

Contained taxa

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