Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon nettingi Green, 1938, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 27: 295. Holotype: CM 10279, by original designation. Type locality: "above 4,000 feet on Barton Knob, near Cheat Bridge, [Randolph County,] West Virginia", USA.

Plethodon richmondi nettingi — Highton and Grobman, 1956, Herpetologica, 12: 187.

Plethodon nettingi nettingi — Thurow, 1968, Ser. Biol. Sci., W. Illinois Univ., 6: 6-48.

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

English Names

Cheat Mountain Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 266; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 37; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; 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: 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

From altitudes above 1463 m in the Cheat Mountains of West Virginia, USA.

Comment

In the Plethodon cinereus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Former subspecies Plethodon hubrichti and Plethodon shenandoah were elevated to species status by Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 587. Reviewed by Highton, 1986, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 383. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 640.

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