Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon websteri Highton, 1979, Brimleyana, 1: 32. Holotype: USNM 204814, by original designation. Type locality: "0.6 km east, 0.9 km south of Howelton, Etowah County, Alabama", USA.

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

English Names

Webster's Salamander (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: 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

Known from central Alabama and west-central Georgia; apparently disjunct populations occur in Clarke County (Alabama), Hinds and Winston counties (Mississippi), West Feliciana Parish (Louisiana), and McCormick County (South Carolina), USA.

Comment

In the Plethodon welleri group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Highton, 1986, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 384. Forms a narrow hybrid zone with Plethodon dorsalis ( Highton, 1985, J. Herpetol., 19: 544-546). Highton, Hastings, Palmer, Watts, Hass, Culver, and Arnold, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 63: 278-290, noted 12S mtDNA representative of the Plethodon glutinosus complex in Plethodon websteri, but that other genes and allozymes placed Plethodon websteri outside of the Plethodon glutinosus complex.

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