Plethodon shenandoah Highton and Worthington, 1967
Plethodon richmondi shenandoah Highton and Worthington, 1967, Copeia, 1967: 617. Holotype: USNM 157379, by original designation. Type locality: "Appalachian Trail 0.02 mile northeast of its junction with Naked Top Mountain Trail, 0.4 air mile west of the top of Hawksbill Mountain, Shenandoah National Park, Page County, Virginia, [USA] 3650 ft elevation".
Plethodon nettingi shenandoah — Highton, 1972 "1971", Res. Div. Monogr. Virginia Polytech. Inst. State Univ., 4: 151.
Plethodon shenandoah — Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 587.
Plethodon (Plethodon) shenandoah — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632. By implication.
English Names
Shenandoah 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; 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).
Distribution
Shenandoah National Park, Page and Madison counties, Virginia, USA, 900-1143 m elevation.
Comment
In the Plethodon cinereus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Highton, 1988, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 413: 1-2. Sites, Morando, Highton, Huber, and Jung, 2004, J. Herpetol., 38: 96-105, on the basis of molecular evidence rejected range extensions in Virginia by Thurow, 1999, Bull. Chicago Herpetol. Soc., 34: 269-273, as based on specimens assignable to Plethodon cinereus. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 584.
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