Plethodontidae

From Palaeos

<==Plethodontidae
   |  i. s.: Desmognathus
   |         Bolitoglossa
   |           |--B. altamazonica
   |           `--B. yucatana
   |         Thorius
   |         Chiropterotriton
   |           |--C. magnipes
   |           `--C. mosaueri
   |         Pseudoeurycea anitae
   |         Hydromantes
   |           |--H. genei
   |           |--H. italicus
   |           |    |--H. i. italicus
   |           |    `--H. i. gormani
   |           `--H. shastae
   `--Plethodontinae
        |--Hemidactyliini
        `--+--Plethodon
           |    |--P. cinereus
           |    |--P. dorsalis
           |    |--P. dunni
           |    |--P. glutinosus
           |    |--P. idahoensis
           |    |--P. jordani
           |    |--P. oconaluftee
           |    |--P. petraeus
           |    |--P. vehiculum
           |    `--P. wehrlei
           `--Aneides
                |--A. aeneus
                `--+--A. hardii
                   `---+--A. lugubris
                       `--+--A. ferreus
                          `--A. flavipunctatus

* Type species of generic name indicated

References

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Sweet, S. S. 1986. Caudata. In Stygofauna Mundi: A Faunistic, Distributional, and Ecological Synthesis of the World Fauna inhabiting Subterranean Waters (including the Marine Interstitial) (L. Botosaneanu, ed.) pp. 734-740. E. J. Brill / Dr. W. Backhuys: Leiden.

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