Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Spelerpes platycephalus Camp, 1916, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 17: 11. Holotype: MVZ 5693, by original designation. Type locality: "head of Lyell Cañon, 10,800 ft. altitude, Yosemite National Park, [Tuolumne County,] California", USA. Placed on the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology by Opinion 1866, Anonymous, 1997, Bull. Zool. Nomencl., 54: 72-74.

Eurycea platycephala — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 20. Grinnell and Storer, 1924, Animal Life in the YosemiteG: 652.

Hydromantes platycephalus — Dunn, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 40.

Hydromantoides platycephalus — Lanza and Vanni, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 120.

Hydromantoides (Hydromantoides) platycephalus — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 108.

Hydromantes (Hydromantes) platycephalus — Wake, Salvador, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 543-548.

English Names

Mount Lyell Salamander (Grinnell and Storer, 1924, Animal Life in the Yosemite: 652; Storer, 1925, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 27: 43; Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 76; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 451; Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 146; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 56; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 51; 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: 195; 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

High elevations (1220-3660 m) in the Sierra Nevada from Sierra and Placer counties south to Tulare and Inyo counties, California, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Gorman, 1964, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 11: 1. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 195-196, provided a brief account, figure, and amp. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 318-319, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Richardson and Gienger, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 213, discussed the range and provided the first record for Placer County, California, USA, and discussed the range. Rovito, 2010, Mol. Ecol., 19: 4554-457, implied that the differentiated, allopatric populations of this nominal species might be considered distinct species.

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