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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 Mts. in Virginia. 

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

 southward to Georgia and Louisiana. 



SALAMANDRIDAE (FAMILY) 



Notophthalmus (GENUS) 



RAFINESQUE, Ann. Nat., Lexington, No. 1, March 22, 1820, p. 5 

 TYPE: miniatus = viridescens 



Notophthalmus meridionalis (COPE) 



Diemyctylus miniatus, subsp. meridionalis COPE 



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

 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. 



Notophthalmus 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. 



