Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton, 1961
Phaeognathus hubrichti Highton, 1961, Copeia, 1961: 67. Holotype: USNM 142486, by original designation. Type locality: "three miles (4. 8 km) northwest of McKenzie on U.S. Route 31, Butler County, Alabama", USA.
English Names
Red Hills Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 271; 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. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 216, noted that two groups were identifiable through electrophoretic data. Schwaner and Mount, 1970, Copeia, 1970: 571-573, and Bailey and Miller, 2006, Herpetol. Rev., 37: 357, provided range extensions and discussed the range. 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: 582. Fisher-Reid and Wiens, 2011, BMC Evol. Biol., 11 (300): 1-20, discussed discordance of mtDNA and nuDNA datasets in Plethodon, which largely confirmed earlier work,
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