Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon hardii Taylor, 1941, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 54: 77. Holotype: EHT-HMS 23656, by original designation; now FMNH 100103 according to Marx, 1976, Fieldiana, Zool., 69: 40. Type locality: "Sacramento Mountains (9,000 ft.) at Cloudcroft, [Otero County,] New Mexico", USA.

Aneides hardii — Lowe, 1950, Copeia, 1950: 93. Schad, Stewart, and Harrington, 1959, Canad. J. Zool., 37: 229-303.

Aneides hardyi — Stebbins, 1954, Amph. Rept. W. North Am.: 74. Incorrect subsequent spelling.

English Names

Sacramento Mountains Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 256; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 19; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 177; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 14; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 24).

Sacramento Mountain Salamander (Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 135; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 50; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 173; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 48; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 5; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 29; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11).

Distribution

High elevations of the Sacramento, Capitan, and White mountains of southern New Mexico, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Wake, 1965, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 17: 1-2; see also Schad, Stewart, and Harrington, 1959, Canad. J. Zool., 37: 299-303 (morphology), and Pope and Highton, 1980, J. Herpetol., 14: 343-346 (genetics), for study of geographic variation and literature review. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 178, provided a brief account, figure, and map.

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