Siren lacertina Linnaeus, 1766
Siren lacertina Linnaeus In Österdam, 1766, Siren Lacertina Diss. Acad.: 15. Types: Not stated or known to exist. Type locality: "australi habitat Carolina Americes [sic]". See http://huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/Departments/Library/LinnaeanDiss.shtml, for discussion of authorship.
Siren lacertina Linnaeus, 1767, Syst. Nat., Ed. 12, 1(2) Addenda: sign. Rrrr 5 (not paged). Type(s): Not stated or known to exist. Type locality: "Habitat in Carolinae paludosis"; restricted to "vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina", USA, by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 14. Type species
Muraena siren Gmelin, 1789, Syst. Nat., Ed. 13, 1(3): 1136. Substitute name for Siren lacertina Linnaeus, 1767. Synonymy by Schinz, 1822, Thierr. Naturgesch., 2: 188; Harlan, 1827, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 5: 321.
Syren lacertina —Custis In Freeman and Custis, 1807, Account Red River Louisiana: 23.
Sirene lacertina — Oken, 1816, Lehrb. Naturgesch., 3(2): 187.
Phanerobranchus dipus Leuckart, 1821, Isis von Oken, 9: 260. Substitute name for Siren lacertina Linnaeus, 1767.
Siren lacertina — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 87.
English Names
Common Siren (Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 108).
Mud Iguana (Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 108).
Mud Eel (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 20; Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 57; Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 51).
Siren (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 20; Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 406).
Great Siren (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 198; Davis and Rice, 1883, Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1: 26; Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 150; Strecker, 1915, Baylor Bull., 18: 57; Strecker, 1928, Contr. Baylor Univ. Mus., 16: 8; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 464; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 14).
Greater Siren (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: 247; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Liner, 1994, Herpetol. Circ., 23: 15; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 10; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 30; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 22; Liner and Casas-Andreu, 2008, Herpetol. Circ., 38: 35; 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: 31).
Distribution
The coastal plain from the vicinity of Washington, D.C., south to southern Alabama and peninsular Florida, USA; isolated population in the Rio Grande drainage of South Texas, USA, and adjacent Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Comment
Reviewed by Martof, 1973, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 128: 1-2. See comment under Siren. The report from from South Texas and adjacent Mexico is of Flores-Villela and Brandon, 1992, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 61: 289-291; the relative status of the widely disjunct South Texas and Florida populations is unclear and deserves careful scrutiny. Dixon, 2000, Amph. Rept. Texas, Ed. 2: 51-52, has applied the name Siren texana to this taxon is South Texas, although the rationale for this is unclear as the type of Siren texana is a Siren intermedia-type animal and not a Siren lacertina-type animal. See discussion regarding this issue under Siren intermedia. See Frost and Lannoo, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 914, for more detailed discussion. Harris, 1975, Bull. Maryland Herpetol. Soc., 11: 98, provided records for Washington, D.C. See brief account by Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 37-38.
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