Phaeognathus Highton, 1961
Phaeognathus Highton, 1961, Copeia, 1961: 66. Type species: Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton, 1961, by original designation.
English Names
Red Hills Salamanders (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: 8; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 25; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 20; 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: 29).
Distribution
Wooded Alabama Coastal Plain (Wilcox, Covington, Butler, Crenshaw, Monroe, and Conecuh counties), southern edge of the Red Hills region, USA.
Comment
Reviewed by Brandon, 1966, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 26: 1-2. Macey, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 194-202, and Chippindale, Bonett, Baldwin, and Wiens, 2004, Evolution, 58: 2809-2822, considered Phaeognathus to be the sister taxon of Desmognathus.
Contained taxa
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