2 STEJNEGER AND BARBOUR, 1933 



Necturus punctatus (Gibbes) 



Menobranchus punctatus Gibbes 



Proc. Amer. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Charleston, 1850, p. 159. 

 Necturus punctatus Cope 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1889, p. 27, fig. 4. 



TYPE locality: Dr. Schoolbred's plantation on the South 

 Santee River, a few miles from its mouth, South Carolina. 



range: Fresh waters of North and South Carolina, especially 

 rice-field ditches. 



MUTABILIA (SUBORDER) 

 Merrem, Syst. Amph., 1820, p. 166 



AMPHIUMIDAE (FAMILY) 

 Amphiuma (GENUS) 



Garden, Smith's Correspondejice of Linnaeus, Vol. 1, 1821, p. 599 

 type: means 



Amphiuma means Garden 



BLIND EEL, CONGO EEL, CONGO SNAKE 



Amphiuma means Garden 



Smith's Correspondence of Linnaeus, Vol. 1, 1821, p. 599 (descr. 

 p. 333). 

 Amphiuma means Cope 



Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 34, 1899, p. 216. 



TYPE locality: Not stated, but from the context evidently 



either Charleston or East Florida. 

 range: From Virginia south to Florida, west to Louisiana. 



Amphiuma tridactylum Cuvier 



Amphiuma tridactylum Cuvier 



Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, Vol. 14, 1827, p. 7, pi. 1, figs. 4-6, 

 pi. 2, figs. 9-18. 



TYPE locality: New Orleans, Louisiana. 



range: Northern Florida to southern Mississippi and Louisiana, 

 up the Mississippi Valley at least to Missouri. 



CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE (FAMILY) 



Cryptobranchus (GENUS) 



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

 type: gigantea = alleganiensis 



