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CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE (FAMILY) 



Cryptobranchus (GENUS) 



Leuckart, Isis, 1821, Lit. Anz., p. 259 

 type: gigantea = alleganiensis 



Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Daudin) 

 HELL-BENDER 



Salamandra alleganiensis Daudin 



Hist. Nat. Rept., Vol. 8, 1803, p. 231. 

 Cryptobranchus alleghaniensis Van der Hoeven 



Tijdschr. Nat. Geschied. Physiol., Vol. 4, 1837, p. 384. 

 Cryptobranchus allegheniensis Cope 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, p. 38, fig. 5. 



TYPE locality: Alleghany Mountains in Virginia. 

 range: Western New York, the Great Lakes system, Iowa and 

 southward to Georgia and Louisiana. 



SALAMANDRIDAE {FAMILY) 



Triturus (GENUS) 



Rafinesque, Anal. Nat., 1815, p. 78 

 type : cristatus 



Triturus meridionalis (Cope) 



Diemyctylus miniatus, subsp. meridionalis Cope 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 17, 1880, p. 30. 

 Triturus meridionalis Ditnn 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Vol. 62, 1918, p. 452. 

 Diemyctylus viridescens meridionalis Cope 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, p. 211, fig. 54. 



TYPE locality: Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico. 



range : Southern Georgia to Louisiana, Texas and Tamaulipas. 



Triturus torosus (Eschscholtz) 

 GIANT NEWT, CALIFORNIA NEWT 



Triton torosus Eschscholtz 



Zool. Atlas, Pt. 5, 1833, p. 12, pi. 21, fig. 15. 

 Notophthalmus torosus Baird 



Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., Ser. 2, Vol. 1, 1849, p. 284. 

 Diemyctylus torosus Cope 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, p. 204, fig. 51, 



TYPE locality: Surroundings of the Bay of San Francisco, 



California. 

 RANGE : California, Oregon, and Washington. 



