The largest genus of salamanders, bolitoglossa plethodontidae, is widespread in tropical america, where it occurs in diverse habitats and elevation. Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders. Vastly underestimated species richness of amazonian salamanders. Home university of southern california dissertations and theses comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, family plethodontidae. They are close to true salamanders except for the fact that they do not have. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. They spend time both in amphibia, amphibia is one of the five major classes of vertebrates. Although the systematics of these taxa has been the focus of much study. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The act grants all of the powers, rights, and privileges necessary to manage, conserve, preserve. If you do not see its contents the file may be temporarily unavailable at the journal website or you do not have a pdf plugin installed and enabled in your browser. Bruce1 gompertz growth functions were fitted to skeletochronological. All structured data from the file and property namespaces. Molecular systematics of plethodon and aneides caudata.
It uses, which is a metatemplate designed to ease the process of creating and maintaining stub templates. Habitat modification has contributed to difficulties in finding certain species. Article pdf available in check list 41 march 2008 with 124 reads. Salamanders, amphibian declines, populations, plethodontidae, mexico. Enlarged multilocus data set provides surprisingly younger. Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless. Request pdf a specimen of karsenia koreana caudata.
The salamanders of the family plethodontidae by dunn, emmett reid, 18941956. Plethodontidae definition is a large family of small chiefly north american terrestrial or freshwater salamanders that have neither lungs nor gills as adults. There are over 250 species of lungless salamanders. Distribution extension article pdf available in check list 34 november 2007 with 68 reads. Food habits of the ouachita dusky salamander, desmognathus. The edwards aquifer authority is a groundwater district, mandated by the 1993 edwards aquifer authority act. They live in british columbia, brazil, sardinia, alps and south korea. Publication date 1926 topics salamanders, plethodontidae.
Edwards aquifer authority generic boundaries in texas. The species diversity of south american bolitoglossa is vastly underestimated, our inferences indicate that there may be up. Download fulltext pdf amphibia, plethodontidae, pseudoeurycea maxima. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature 272, 7980 1970 parker, s. Analysis of the contact zone between the dusky salamanders desmognathus fuscus fuscus and desmognathus fuscus conanti caudata. Bruce1 gompertz growth functions were fitted to skeletochronological data sets of three species of desmognathine salamanders from an assemblage wolf creek in the cowee mountains of southwestern north carolina. Alternatively, you can download the file locally and open with any standalone pdf. Plethodontidae from the san gabriel mountains, southern california by david b wake. New species of lungless salamanders of the genus pseudoeurycea amphibia. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page for more information. They really do lack lungs, and must keep their skin wet in order to effectively breathe through it. Plethodontidae article about plethodontidae by the free.
Plethodontidae is a speciesrich genus of neotropical. Wikimedia commons has media related to plethodontidae. The information you enter here will be stored in the downloaded file. Aug 23, 20 this page was last edited on 14 september 2017, at 22. Phylogenetic studies of larson 1991 and larson and dimmick 1993 indicate that the plethodontidae is a fairly distant relative of the other internally. The plethodontidae is the largest family of salamanders, with over 275 species in 28 genera.
A few species also occur spottily in sardinia, northern italy. Bolitoglossa, nototriton, and oedipina and natural history notes from recent expeditions. The closely related salamander genera plethodon and aneides plethodontidae differ in morphology, behavior, and ecology. Typing plethodontidae stub produces the message shown at the beginning, and adds the article to the following category. Plethodontidae from eastern panama, with comments on other. Biokids kids inquiry of diverse species, plethodontidae. Request pdf integrative systematic revision of bolitoglossa celaque caudata.
Plethodontidae definition of plethodontidae by merriam. Background the western slimy salamander plethodon albagula is the westernmost species of the plethodon glutinosus group, which is broadly distributed throughout much of the eastern united states plethodon albagula has two disjunct known ranges. Lungless salamanders simple english wikipedia, the free. Most species are native to the western hemisphere, from british columbia to brazil, although a few species are found in sardinia. Integrative systematic revision of bolitoglossa celaque. Paleogeografia della sardegna ed evoluzione degli hydromantes amphibia, plethodontidae 1998. Most species are native to the western hemisphere, from british columbia to brazil, although a few species are found in sardinia, europe south of the alps, and south korea.
Molecular phylogenetics of desmognathine salamanders. Homing behaviour in speleomantes strinatii amphibia. Download fulltext pdf download fulltext pdf amphibia, caudata, plethodontidae, bolitoglossa medemi. The family plethodontidae lungless salamanders contains the majority of salamander species, including major radiations of direct developers.
The salamanders of guerrero, mexico, with descriptions of five new species of pseudoeurycea caudata. Pdf the salamander fauna of colombia is very poorly known, probably because most research efforts. The act grants all of the powers, rights, and privileges necessary to manage, conserve, preserve, and protect the aquifer. Most of them are terrestrial and are active in daytime. The information you enter here will be stored in the downloaded file to assist you in managing your downloaded pdfs locally.
Edwards aquifer authority comparative osteology and. This page was last edited on 14 september 2017, at 22. Download pdf download all download jpeg 2000 download text. Pdf amphibia, caudata, plethodontidae, bolitoglossa. Start this article has been rated as startclass on the projects quality scale. Molecular diversification of salamanders of the tropical american. In terms of number of species, they are by far the largest group of salamanders. Edwards plateau, balcones aquifer sic, san marcos pool. Reptile, most reptiles can be classified into three large groups. Taxonomy of salamanders of the family plethodontidae amphibia.
Application of the gompertz function in studies of growth in dusky salamanders plethodontidae. Deep phylogenetic relationships of the largest salamander family plethodontidae have been difficult to resolve, probably reflecting a rapid diversification early in their evolutionary history. Phylogenetic studies of larson 1991 and larson and dimmick 1993 indicate that the plethodontidae is a fairly distant relative of the other internally fertilizing salamanders and that this family has no close relatives among extant salamanders. They can be found in north america, southern europe and tropical america. Plethodontidae, with a new species from the lenca highlands of honduras the diversity of the tropical climbing. Pdf amphibia, plethodontidae, pseudoeurycea maxima. Pdf two new species of salamanders, genus bolitoglossa.
Plethodontidae from guatemala, with miscellaneous notes on known species. Bhl relies on donations to provide free pdf downloads and other services. Generic boundaries in texas cave salamanders and a redescription of typhlomolge robusta amphibia, plethodontidae. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. This template is used to identify a lungless salamander stub. Lungless salamander, family plethodontidae, any of more than 370 species of lungless amphibians dependent largely on cutaneous respiration gas exchange through moistened skin. Plethodontidae misidentified as hynobius leechii 27 years before the species description and additional historical record we describe a. Memoirs of the southern california academy of sciences 4. Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, family plethodontidae. Vastly underestimated species richness of amazonian salamanders plethodontidae.
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