Hydromantes brunus Gorman, 1954
Hydromantes brunus Gorman, 1954, Herpetologica, 10: 153. Holotype: MVZ 59530, by original designation. Type locality: "base of low cliffs beside State Route 140, 0.7 miles NNE Briceburg (confluence of Bear Creek and Merced River), Mariposa County, California", USA.
Hydromantoides brunus — Lanza and Vanni, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 120.
Hydromantoides (Hydromantoides) brunus — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 108.
Hydromantes (Hydromantes) brunus — Wake, Salvador, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 543-548.
English Names
Limestone Salamander (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 53; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 7; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32; 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; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 197; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 19; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 13; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 28).
Distribution
Along Merced River and North Fork Merced River, Mariposa County, California, USA, 300-760 m elevation.
Comment
Reviewed by Gorman, 1964, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 11: 1. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 197-198, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 318, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 577.
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