Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon virginia Highton, 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 66. Holotype: USNM 507764, by original designation. Type locality: "along the jeep trail from 0.2-0.9 km southeast and south-southeast of the top of Cow Knob (38° 41′ 25″ N, 79° 05′ 17″ W) at an elevation of 1100-1200 m, along the Pendleton County, West Virginia-Rockingham County, Virginia state line", USA.

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

English Names

Shenandoah Mountain Salamander (Highton, 1999, Herpetologica, 55: 66; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 29; 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

Mountainous region along the borders of eastern West Virginia and western Virginia, south of the headwaters of the South Branch of the Potomac River, USA.

Comment

In the Plethodon cinereus group, and forming a narrow hybrid zone with Plethodon hoffmani according to the original publication. 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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