Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon cheoah Highton and Peabody, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 62. Holotype: USNM 459012, by original designation. Type locality: "Bellcollar Gap (35° 19′ 20″ N 83° 41′ 11″ W), 0.6 km southwest of the top of Cheoah Bald, at an elevation of 1445 m, Graham-Swain County line, North Carolina", USA.

Plethodon (Plethodon) cheoah — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632. By implication.

English Names

Cheoah Bald Salamander (original publication; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 26; 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

Cheoah Bald, in Graham and Swain counties, North Carolina, USA, 975-1524 m elevation.

Comment

In the Plethodon glutinosus group, Plethodon jordani complex, according to the original publication. Weisrock and Larson, 2006, Biol. J. Linn. Soc., 89: 25-51, discussed the phylogenetic status of this species. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 583.

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