Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon mississippi Highton In Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 65. Holotype: USNM 257388, by original designation. Type locality: "locality 79 [34° 36′ 38″ N, 88° 11′ 56″ W]. . . , Tishomingo State Park, at an elevation of 177 m, Tishomingo County, Mississippi", USA.

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

English Names

Mississippi Slimy Salamander (Highton in Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 65; 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: 30).

Distribution

Western Alabama, Mississippi, Florida Parishes of southeastern Louisiana, western Tennessee, and far western Kentucky, USA.

Comment

In the Plethodon glutinosus group, according to the original publication. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 355, rejected the distinction from Plethodon glutinosus on the basis of overall similarity.

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