Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas

AMPHIBIA (Amphibians) CAUDATA (Salamanders) AMBYSTOMATIDAE (Mole Salamanders)

Kansas Salamander
†Ambystoma kansense (Adams in Adams and Martin 1929)

Conservation Status:
Extinct

Diagnosis:

Distribution:

(, Museum Voucher) (, Observation) (, Literature Record) (, iNat Record), ( Fossil)
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Occurrence Summary:
74
Records
74
Museum Vouchers
0
Other Observations

Some county occurrences indicated below may be too imprecise to map above.
County Breakdown: County Name (# occurrences):
Sherman (41); Wallace (33);

Natural History:

Remarks:
Described as Plioambystoma kanensis and subsequently placed into the synonymy of Ambystoma by Tihen (1958).

Bibliography:

1928	Adams, Leverett A. and Handel T. Martin. Pliocene Urodeles in western Kansas. Science 68(1751):59-60
1929	Adams, Leverett A. and Handel T. Martin. A new urodele from the lower Pliocene of Kansas. American Journal of Science s5-17(102):504-520
1930	Adams, Leverett A. and Handel T. Martin. An addition to the Urodele fauna of Kansas from the Lower Pliocene. The University of Kansas Science Bulletin 19(14):10 Reports Plioambystoma kansense from Sherman County.
1937	Taylor, Edward H. Una nueva fauna de batracios anuros del Plioceno medio de Kansas. [A new fauna of anuran batrachians from the Middle Pliocene of Kansas]. Anales del Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 7(4):513-529 Name Scaphiopus pliobatrachus, Bufo hibbardi, and Bufo arenarius from Sherman County, Kansas. In Spanish.
1939	Hibbard, Claude W. Notes on additional fauna of Edson Quarry of the Middle Pliocene of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 42():457-462 Among many mammals, the paper mentions Plioambystoma kanensis, Scaphiopus pliobatrachus, Anaxyrus arenarius, Anaxyrus hibbardi, a Chelydridae listed as Chelonia [sic] sp., and Testudo sp.
1941	Taylor, Edward H. Extinct toads and salamanders from Middle Pliocene beds of Wallace and Sherman counties, Kansas. State Geological Survey of Kansas, Bulletin 38(6):177-196 Original descriptions of Anaxyrus hibbardi, Anaxyrus arenarius, Scaphiopus antiquus, Scaphiopus pliobatrachus, Ambystoma kansense, Plioambystoma kansense, Lanebatrachus martini, and Ogallalabatrachus horarium
1945	Lane, Henry H. A survey of the fossil vertebrates of Kansas, Part II. Amphibia. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 48(3):286-316
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
1967	Brame, Arden H., Jr. A list of the world's recent and fossil salamanders. Herpeton 2(1):1-26
1978	Brame, Arden H., Jr. II, Ronald Hochnadel, Hobart M. Smith and Rozella B. Smith. Bionumeric codes for amphibians and reptiles of the world. I. Salamanders. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 81(1):43-56
1985	Schultze, Hans-Peter, L. Hunt, J. Chorn, and A. M. Neuner. Type and figured specimens of fossil vertebrates in the collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. Part II. Fossil amphibians and reptiles. University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous Publications (77):1-66 Also check on several listed names not in KHA as KS taxa.

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