Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon meridianus Highton and Peabody, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 61. Holotype: USNM 454653, by original designation. Type locality: "South Mountains (35° 35′ 08″ N 81° 41′ 22″ W, locality 34), Burke-Cleveland county line, North Carolina, at an elevation of 823 m", USA.

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

English Names

South Mountain Gray-cheeked Salamander (original publication; 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; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30).

South Mountain Graycheek Salamander (Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14).

Distribution

South Mountains of Burke, Cleveland, and Rutherford counties, North Carolina, USA, 543-823 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 photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 584.

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