Plethodon hubrichti Thurow, 1957
Plethodon hubrichti Thurow, 1957, Herpetologica, 13: 59. Holotype: USNM 139087 (formerly GRT 1221), according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 20. Type locality: "by the Blue Ridge Parkway at about 3100 feet, 0.9 miles south of cement milepost 80 and a sign reading 'view of Black Rock Hill' in Bedford County near the Bedford-Botecourt line and roughly 10 miles ESE of Buchanan, Virginia", USA.
Plethodon richmondi hubrichti — Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 232.
Plethodon nettingi hubrichti — Thurow, 1968, Ser. Biol. Sci., W. Illinois Univ., 6: 6-48.
Plethodon hubrichti — Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 587.
Plethodon (Plethodon) hubrichti — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632. By implication.
English Names
Thunder Ridge Salamander (Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8).
Peaks of Otter Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 275; 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: 21; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 29).
Distribution
Peaks of Otter region, Bedford, Botetourt, and Rockbridge counties, northeast of Roanoke, Virginia, USA, above 550 m elevation.
Comment
In the Plethodon cinereus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Highton, 1986, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 393. 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: 583.
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