Plethodontinae Gray, 1850

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae

Plethodontidae Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 31. Type genus: Plethodon Tschudi, 1838.

Plethodontina — Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 38.

Desmognathina Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 40. Type genus: Desmognathus Baird, 1850. Synonymy with Plethodontinae by Chippindale, Bonett, Baldwin, and Wiens, 2004, Evolution, 58: 2809-2822.

Ensatinina Gray, 1850, Cat. Spec. Amph. Coll. Brit. Mus., Batr. Grad.: 48. Type genus: Ensatina Gray, 1850.

Plethodontae — Cope, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 11: 124. Implied tribe.

Desmognathidae Cope, 1866, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 6: 103. Type genus: Desmognathus Baird, 1850.

Plethodontinae — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 1. Wolterstorff, 1901, Feuille Jeunes Nat., Ser. 4, 31: 77.

Desmognathinae — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 1. Hay, 1892, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1891: 439.

Plethodontida — Knauer, 1883, Naturgesch. Lurche: 97.

Plethodontina — Schulze, 1891, Jahresber. Abhandl. Naturwiss. Ver. Magdeburg, 1890: 169.

Plethodontini — Wake, 1966, Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., 4: 51. Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 20; Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.

Desmognathini — Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 20. Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633.

Aneidini Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Type genus: Aneides Baird, 1851. Nomen nudum.

Ensatinini Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Type genus: Ensatina Gray, 1850.

Hydromantini Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Type genus: Hydromantes Gistel, 1843. Nomen nudum.

Aneidini Wake, 2012, Zootaxa, 3484: 79. Type genus: Aneides Baird, 1851.

Hydromantini Wake, 2012, Zootaxa, 3484: 80. Type genus: Hydromantes Gistel, 1843.

English Names

None noted.

Distribution

USA and southern Canada; Mediterranean Europe; Korean Peninsula.

Comment

See nomenclatural comments on family-group names by Dubois, 1987 "1985", Alytes, 4: 155-156. See Plethodontidae record for access to relevant phylogenetic/taxonomic literature bearing on the recognition of this taxon. Titus and Larson, 1996, Syst. Biol., 45: 451-472, discussed phylogeny and character evolution within Desmognathus and Phaeognathus, as did Rissler and Taylor, 2003, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 27: 197-211. Sever, 1990, Trans. Am. Microscop. Soc., 109: 193-204, discussed cloacal anatomy. Vieites, Min, and Wake, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 19903-19907, on the basis of nuDNA discussed the phylogenetics of this taxon.

Contained taxa

Aneides Baird, 1851 (8 sp.)
Desmognathus Baird, 1850 (21 sp.)
Ensatina Gray, 1850 (1 sp.)
Hydromantes Gistel, 1848 (11 sp.)
Karsenia Min, Yang, Bonett, Vieites, Brandon, and Wake, 2005 (1 sp.)
Phaeognathus Highton, 1961 (1 sp.)
Plethodon Tschudi, 1838 (55 sp.)

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