Southern red-backed salamander

Southern red-backed salamander
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Plethodontidae
Subfamily: Plethodontinae
Genus: Plethodon
Species:
P. serratus
Binomial name
Plethodon serratus
Grobman, 1944
Synonyms[2]
  • Plethodon cinereus serratus
    Grobman, 1944
  • Plethodon cinereus polycentratus Highton and Grobman, 1956

The southern red-backed salamander (Plethodon serratus) is a species of salamander endemic to the United States.[2] It is found in four widely disjunct populations: one in central Louisiana; one in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma; one in central Missouri; and one from southeastern Tennessee, to southwestern North Carolina, western Georgia, and eastern Alabama. It is sometimes referred to as the Georgia red-backed salamander or the Ouachita red-backed salamander. It was once considered a subspecies of the red-backed salamander, Plethodon cinereus.

  1. ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2014). "Plethodon serratus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T59354A56338786. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T59354A56338786.en. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Frost was invoked but never defined (see the help page).