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Amphibia    Caudata    Ambystomatidae  
Frosted Flatwoods Salamander
Ambystoma cingulatum Cope, 1868
AM-bis-TOH-mah — sin-gyoo-LAY-tum
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Occurrences:; 104 Total; 102 Museum; 2 Other

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Province/State Distribution:
United States: Florida Georgia South Carolina

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);


Selected References:
1950 Goin, Coleman J. A study of the salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum, with the description of a new subspecies. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 31:299–321
1958 Tihen, Joseph A. Comments on the osteology and phylogeny of ambystomatid salamanders. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 3(1):1-50
1965 Martof, Bernard S. and H. Carl Gerhardt. Observations on the geographic variation in Ambystoma cingulatum. Copeia 1965(3):342-346
1968 Martof, Bernard S. Ambystoma cingulatum.. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (57):1-2
1969 Tihen, Joseph A. Ambystoma. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (75):1-4
1974 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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