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Notophthalmus perstriatus (Bishop, 1941)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Notophthalmus

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Triturus perstriatus Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 3. Holotype: UMMZ 89761, by original designation. Type locality: "Dedge pond, 2 miles east of Chesser's Island, Charlton County, Georgia", USA.

Diemyctylus perstriatus — Neill, 1952, Copeia, 1952: 195. Neill, 1954, Publ. Res. Div. Ross Allen’s Rept. Inst., 1: 79.

Notophthalmus perstriatus — Smith, 1953, Herpetologica, 9: 98.

Diemictylus viridescens perstriatus — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 25.

Notophthalmus perstriatus — Mecham, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 38: 1.

Notophthalmus (Notophthalmus) perstriatus — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 67.

English Names

Striped Newt (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 86; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 25; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 259; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 35; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 8; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 25; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 20; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 29).

Distribution

Southern Georgia and northern Florida, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Mecham, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 38: 1-2. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 642.

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