Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Siren striata LeConte, 1824, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 1: 53. Type(s): in the "Cabinet of the Lyceum"; not now known to exist. Type locality: Not stated, but inferred by Stejneger and Barbour, 1933, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 3: 24, to be "one of the Le Conte plantations in Floyd or Liberty County, Georgia", USA; restricted to "Riceborough, Liberty County, Georgia", by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 14.

Pseudobranchus striatus — Gray, 1825, Ann. Philos., London, Ser. 2, 10: 216.

Pseudobranchus striatus striatus — Netting and Goin, 1942, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 29: 175-196.

Pseudobranchus striatus spheniscus Goin and Crenshaw, 1949, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 31: 277. Holotype: CM 29015, by original designation. Type locality: "Seven miles south of Smithville, Lee County, Georgia", USA.

Pseudobranchus striatus lustricolus Neill, 1951, Publ. Res. Div. Ross Allen’s Rept. Inst., 1: 39. Holotype: ERA-WTN 14214 (to have been deposted at FSM), by original designation. Type locality: "7.8 miles southeast of Otter Creek, Levy County, Florida" USA.

English Names

Striated Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus: Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 108; Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 20).

Little Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus: Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 150).

Striped Mud-Eel (Pseudobranchus striatus: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 52).

Mud Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 16),

Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchs striatus: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36).

Northern Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus: 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).

Gulf Hammock Mud Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus lustricolus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 16; Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 205).

Gulf Hammock Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus lustricolus: 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).

Mud Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus striatus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 16).

Broad-striped Mud Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus striatus: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 468; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 16).

Broad-striped Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus striatus: 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).

Slender Mud Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus spheniscus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 16),

Slender Dwarf Siren (Pseudobranchus striatus spheniscus: 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

Coastal plain of South Carolina south through southern Georgia to central and western Florida, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Martof, 1972, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 118: 2-4 (including Pseudobranchus axanthus as a subspecies). Moler and Kezer, 1993, Copeia, 1993: 39-47, discovered that Pseudobranchus axanthus and Pseudobranchus striatus are distinct species. See brief account by Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 39. Moler and Thomas, 1982, Herpetol. Rev., 13: 130, provided the westernmost record in Florida (Walton County).

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