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Climbing Salamanders Aneides lugubris Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Caudata Family: Plethodontidae Genus: Aneides
Baird, 1851Species See table.
Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides. As this name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are as mobile up a tree as in a stream. All six species inhabit mountain ecosystems, and all but two are found primarily in the mountains of California.
Species
Six species are assigned to this genus:
Binomial Name and Author Common Name Aneides aeneus
(Cope and Packard, 1881)Green Salamander Aneides ferreus
Cope, 1869Clouded Salamander Aneides flavipunctatus
(Strauch, 1870)Black Salamander Aneides hardii
(Taylor, 1941)Sacramento Mountain Salamander Aneides lugubris
(Hallowell, 1849)Arboreal Salamander Aneides vagrans
Wake and Jackman, 1999Wandering Salamander External links
- Frost, Darrel R. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Aneides. Electronic Database accessible at http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.php. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. (Accessed: July 30, 2008).
- AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2008. Berkeley, California: Aneides. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/. (Accessed: July 30, 2008).
- Caudata Culture Species Database - Plethodontidae
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