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Pseudobranchus axanthus Netting and Goin, 1942

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Sirenidae > Genus: Pseudobranchus

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Pseudobranchus striatus axanthus Netting and Goin, 1942, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 29: 183. Holotype: CM 20339, by original designation. Type locality: "Eastern edge of Payne's Prarie, where Prarie Creek enter the River Styx, about five miles southeast of Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida", USA.

Pseudobranchus striatus belli Schwartz, 1952, Nat. Hist. Misc., 115: 1. Holotype: UMMZ 10600, by original designation. Type locality: "23.1 miles west of Miami, on the Tamiami Trail, Dade County, Florida", USA.

Pseudobranchus axanthus — Moler and Kezer, 1993, Copeia, 1993: 39-47.

Pseudobranchus axanthus belli — Moler and Kezer, 1993, Copeia, 1993: 39-47. Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9.

Pseudobranchus axanthus axanthus — Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9.

English Names

Narrow-striped Mud Siren (Pseudobranchus axanthus: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 471; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 15).

Narrow-striped Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus axanthus: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 249; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8).

Southern Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus axanthus: Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9), Payne's Prarie Siren (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36; 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: 22; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 16; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30).

Narrow-striped Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus axanthus axanthus: 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: 22; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 16; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30).

Everglades Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus axanthus belli: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 250; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8; 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: 22; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 16; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30).

Distribution

Peninsular Florida, USA.

Comment

See comment under Pseudobranchus striatus. See brief account by Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 38-39.

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