Plethodon punctatus Highton, 1972
Plethodon punctatus Highton, 1972 "1971", Res. Div. Monogr. Virginia Polytech. Inst. State Univ., 4: 176. Holotype: USNM 190224, by original designation. Type locality: "between 0.1 and 0. 2 mile north-northwest of the top of Cow Knob, Pendleton County, West Virginia state line", USA.
Plethodon (Plethodon) punctatus — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632. By implication.
English Names
Cow Knob Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 278; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 28; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 21; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30).
White-spotted Salamander (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: 9; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14).
Distribution
Higher elevations (over 1000 m) on Shenandoah Mountain in Pendleton County, West Virginia, and Augusta and Rockingham counties, Virginia, and on North Mountain (over 900 m), Hardy County, West Virginia, and Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA.
Comment
In the Plethodon wehrlei group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Highton, 1988, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 414: 1-2. 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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