Plethodon hoffmani Highton, 1972
Plethodon hoffmani Highton, 1972 "1971", Res. Div. Monogr. Virginia Polytech. Inst. State Univ., 4: 151. Holotype: USNM 135203, by original designation. Type locality: "Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia", USA.
Plethodon (Plethodon) hoffmani — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632. By implication.
English Names
Valley and Ridge Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 275; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; 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: 27; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 20; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 29).
Valley & Ridge Salamander (Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14).
Distribution
Central and west-central Pennsylvania, northwestern Maryland, eastern West Virginia, and western Virginia south to the New River, USA.
Comment
In the Plethodon cinereus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Highton, 1986, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 392.
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