| Silvery salamander | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Ambystomatidae |
| Genus: | Ambystoma |
| Species: | A. platineum
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| Binomial name | |
| Ambystoma platineum (Hallowell, 1856)
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The silvery salamander (Ambystoma platineum) is a hybrid species of mole salamander from the United States of America and Canada. It is usually between 5.5–7.75 in (14.0–19.7 cm) long and slender, with many small silvery-blue spots on its back and sides. It is brownish grey, and the area around its vent is grey. A unisexual Ambystoma hybrid species,[2] A. platineum has been grouped with other unisexual ambystomatids that take genetic material from Jefferson salamanders (A. jeffersonianum), streamside salamanders (A. barbouri), small-mouthed salamanders (A. texanum), tiger salamanders (A. tigrinum) and the blue-spotted salamander (A. laterale).
Species name designations for unisexual Ambystoma are no longer in use.[3] Instead, unisexual Ambystoma are now considered distinct biotypes rather than species.[4]
- ^ IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. (2022). "Ambystoma laterale". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T59060A193226221. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-1.RLTS.T59060A193226221.en. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ Unisexual Salamander Complexes
- ^ Pfingsten et al. 2013
- ^ Pfingsten et al. 2013