Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon montanus Highton and Peabody, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 58. Holotype: USNM 438400, by original designation. Type locality: "Deep Gap (36° 39′ 28″ N 81° 33′ 25″ W), 1 km west of the top of Mt. Rogers, Grayson-Smyth county line, Virginia, at an elevation of 500 m", USA.

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

English Names

Northern 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).

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

Distribution

Isolated populations in the Valley and Ridge Province of Virgainia, and in the Blue Ridge Province of Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, USA.

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.

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