Frosted Flatwoods Salamander
Ambystoma cingulatum
Cope, 1868
AM-bis-TOH-mah — sin-gyoo-LAY-tum
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
(, Museum Voucher)
(, Observation)
(, Literature Record),
(, Citizen Science),
( Fossil)
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Occurrences:;
104
Total;
102
Museum;
2
Other
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Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for its light-colored crossbands.
Ambystoma — Greek amblys = "blunt" + stoma = "mouth"
cingulatum — Latin cingulatus = "girdled" or "banded"; Refers to the dorsal crossbands.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Bailey's Salamander (Amblystoma cingulatum: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Reticulated Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Frosted Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum cingulatum: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cinculatum: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185); Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum bishopi: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185); Frosted Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum cingulatum: Conant, Roger. 1956. A review of two rare pine snakes from the gulf coastal plain. American Museum Novitates (1781):1-31);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1958
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Tihen, Joseph A. Comments on the osteology and phylogeny of ambystomatid salamanders. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3(1):1-50
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1965
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Martof, Bernard S. and H. Carl Gerhardt. Observations on the geographic variation in Ambystoma cingulatum. Copeia 1965(3):342-346
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1968
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Martof, Bernard S. Ambystoma cingulatum.. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (57):1-2
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1969
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Tihen, Joseph A. Ambystoma. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (75):1-4
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1974
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Hardy, Jerry D., Jr., and J. Olmon. Restriction of the range of the frosted salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum based on a comparison of the larvae of Ambystoma cingulatum and Ambystoma mabeei. Herpetologica 30:156-160
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