Aneides iecanus (Cope, 1883)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Aneides > Species: Aneides iecanus

Plethodon iëcanus Cope, 1883, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 35: 24. Holotype: ANSP 14061, according to Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 23; Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 348. Type locality: "United States fish-hatching establishment on the McCloud River, in Shasta County", California, USA; rendered as "Baird", McCloud River, Shasta County, California, USA by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 223.

Anaides iëcanusCope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 526.

Autodax iecanusCope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 187.

Aneides iecanusGrinnell and Camp, 1917, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 17: 135; Rissler and Apodaca, 2007, Syst. Biol., 56: 938, by implication; Reilly and Wake, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e:7370): 4. 

Aneides (Aneides) iecanusDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 144.

English Names

Shasta Salamander (As Aneides flavipunctatus: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 336. As Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 50).

Shasta Black Salamander (Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 959).

Distribution

Western Shasta County, extending into extreme southern Siskiyou and possibly into northwestern Tehama counties, northern California, USA, 300 to 1000 m elevation.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - California

Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - California

Comment

See comment under Aneides flavipunctatus for access to relevant taxonomic literature. Removed from the synonymy of Aneides flavipunctatus by Rissler and Apodaca, 2007, Syst. Biol., 56: 938 (by implication) and Reilly and Wake, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e:7370): 4, where it had been placed by Storer, 1925, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 27: 119; Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 220; Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 66; Myers and Maslin, 1948, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 61: 127-138. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 411, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Reilly and Wake, 2019, PeerJ, 7(e:7370): 1–36, revised the species and provided a detailed range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 959–960, provided an account summarizing systematics, morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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