Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon stormi Highton and Brame, 1965, Pilot Register Zool., 20: 1-2. Holotype: USNM 149964, by original designation. Type locality: "1 1/4 mile south of Copper, Jackson County, Oregon", USA.

Plethodon elongatus stormi — Stebbins, 1985, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 2: 48. No discussion.

Plethodon (Hightonia) stormi — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632.

English Names

Siskiyou Mountains Salamander (Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 43; 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

Southwestern Jackson County, Oregon, and northern Siskiyou County, California, USA.

Comment

In the Plethodon elongatus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Brodie, 1971, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 103: 1-2. Mahoney, 2004, Mol. Ecol., 13: 149-166, reported on phylogeography of this species and its sister species, Plethodon elongatus. Mead, Clayton, Nauman, Olson, and Pfrender, 2005, Herpetologica, 61: 158-177, reported on phylogeographic patterns and contact zones with Plethodon elongatus. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 585.

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