Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon richmondi Netting and Mittleman, 1938, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 27: 288. Holotype: CM 14189, by original designation. Type locality: "Ritter Park, Huntington, Cabell County, West Virginia, at an elevation of 600-700 feet", USA.

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

Plethodon richmondi popei Highton and Grobman, 1956, Herpetologica, 12: 187. Holotype: FSM 8226, by original designation. Type locality: "Comers Rock, Grayson-Wythe County line, Virginia", USA. Status rejected by Highton, 1962, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 6: 305.

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

English Names

Ravine Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 272; 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: 274; 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).

Southern Ravine Salamander (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; 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).

Southern Ravine Salamander (Plethodon richmondi popei [no longer recognized]: Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 232).

Distribution

West Virginia west of the New and Kanawha rivers and south of the Teays River Valley, throughout eastern and north-central Kentucky, south to southwestern Virginia and the extremes of northwestern North Carolina and northeastern Tennessee, USA.

Comment

In the Plethodon cinereus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. See Regester, 2000, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 707: 1-3, for review.

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