Biology:White-spotted slimy salamander

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Short description: Species of amphibian

White-spotted slimy salamander
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Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Plethodontidae
Subfamily: Plethodontinae
Genus: Plethodon
Species:
P. cylindraceus
Binomial name
Plethodon cylindraceus
(Harlan, 1825)

The white-spotted slimy salamander (Plethodon cylindraceus) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae endemic to the Eastern United States. It is one of 55 species in the genus Plethodon, and was one of the first to be described of its cogeners.[1]

Distribution

This species is found in the Virginia Piedmont and Blue Ridge physiographic provinces of Virginia and North Carolina, west to the French Broad River, and south to the northern Piedmont of South Carolina, and parts of the Valley and Ridge physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains in western Virginia and extreme eastern West Virginia, and in a small area of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of eastern Virginia.

Its natural habitat is temperate forest, and is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2022). "Plethodon cylindraceus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T59335A196340120. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T59335A196340120.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/59335/196340120. Retrieved 20 October 2023. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2511219 entry