Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Salamandrae Goldfuss, 1820, Handb. Zool., 2: 129. Type genus: Salamandra Laurenti, 1768 (= Salamandra Garsault, 1764).

Salamandridae — Gray, 1825, Ann. Philos., London, Ser. 2, 10: 215. Bonaparte, 1840, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, 4: 100.

Salamandroidea — Fitzinger, 1826, Neue Class. Rept.: 41. Explicit family.

Cercopi Wagler, 1828, Isis von Oken, 21: 859. Unavailable name formed explicitly as a family containing "Salamandra etc.".

Salamandrina — Hemprich, 1829, Grundniss Naturgesch. Höhere Lehr., Ed. 2: xix. Wiegmann, 1832, in Wiegmann and Ruthe (eds.), Handbuch der Zool., Amph.: 203; Bonaparte, 1838, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, 1: 393; Bonaparte, 1840, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, 4: 101.

Salamandroidea — Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 202.

Salamandrina — Bonaparte, 1839, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 26): unnumbered. Bonaparte, 1840, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, 4: 11; Bonaparte, 1840, Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, Ser. 2, 2: 395; Leunis, 1844, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 1: 147; Leunis, 1860, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 2: 341. 341.

Salamandridae — Bronn, 1849, Handb. Geschich. Natur, 5: 683.

Salamandrini — Massalongo, 1853, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, Ser. 3, 7: 11.

Salamandroidea — Wied-Neuwied, 1865, Nova Acta Phys. Med. Acad. Caesar Leopold Carol., Halle, 32: 124. Explicit family.

Salamandrida — Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 14. Explicit family.

Salamandroideae — Garman, 1884, Bull. Essex Inst., 16: 37. Implied superfamily.

Salamandridi — Acloque, 1900, Fauna de France, 1: 491.

Salamandroideae — Stejneger, 1907, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 58: 11.

Salamandroidea — Dunn, 1922, Am. Nat., 56: 423. Explicit superfamily.

Salamandroidia — Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 19. Epifamily.: 3. Explicit superfamily.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

Middle and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.

Comment

See comments under Salamandridae and Salamandrininae.

Contained taxa

• Chioglossa Bocage, 1864 (1 sp.)
• Lyciasalamandra Veith and Steinfartz, 2004 (10 sp.)
• Mertensiella Wolterstorff, 1925 (1 sp.)
• Salamandra Garsault, 1764 (7 sp.)

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