Aneides aeneus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Found in scattered mountain locations from West Virginia to Georgia, Green Salamanders hide in moist narrow crevices in rock outcrops, especially in the winter, but are also occasionally found in trees . They are found in narrow crevices on damp rock faces . Their bodies are adapted for this environment because of the flattened head and body. Can also be found under stones , logs or loose bark .

They range from extreme northeastern Mississippi through northern Alabama and up through Tennessee, eastern Kentucky and most of West Virginia.

Ecology: This species can be found in damp (but not wet) crevices in shaded rock outcrops and ledges, or beneath loose bark and in cracks of standing or fallen trees (in cove hardwoods , for example). It can sometimes also be found in or under logs on the ground . It sometimes reaches high population densities in logged areas where the tree canopies are left. Eggs are laid in rock crevices, rotting stumps , or similar dark, damp places.[1].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     6     Rocky areas (eg. inland cliffs , mountain peaks)   
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Biology

Reproduction

Female Green Salamanders lay 10 to 26 eggs in the walls of rock crevices in early summer. The female remains with the eggs until they hatch about three months later. Green Salamanders lack an aquatic larval stage, young emerging from eggs look like miniature adults .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Anaides Ferreus • Anaides ferreus Cope • Anaides ferreus Cope, 1869 • Aneides ferreus • Aneides ferreus Cope • Aneides ferreus Cope, 1869 • Plethodon aeneus Cope and Packard

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Cope, E. D., and A. S. Packard, Jr. The Fauna of the Nickajack Cave The American Naturalist, vol. 15, no. 11, 1881.

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Aneides

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. aeneus (Clouded Salamander) · A. ferreus (Clouded Salamander) · A. flavipunctatus (Santa Cruz Black Salamander) · A. flavipunctatus niger (Santa Cruz Black Salamander) · A. hardii (Sacramento Mountains Salamander) · A. lugubris (Arboreal Salamander) · A. lugubris lugubris (Arboreal Salamander) · A. vagrans (Wandering Salamander)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A check list of North American amphibians and reptiles / by Leonhard Stejneger and Thomas Barbour. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. url p. 20, p. 17, p. 18.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 93 1943 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 24.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 157, p. 9.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. 1975 Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1946-1996. url p. 23.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. Northampton? Mass., 1950 url p. 322.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 128.
• Proceedings of the New England Zoo?logical Club. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The Club, 1899- url p. 39.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. 37 1956 [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. url p. 1246, p. 7.
• The relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon... 1956. url , .
• Transactions of the Kentucky Academy of Science. [Lexington, Ky.]Kentucky Academy of Science, 1923-1997. url , p. 13, p. 145, p. 69, p. 74, p. 75, p. 78, p. 87, p. 95.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 10 1959 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 585.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Geoffrey Hammerson 2004. Aneides aeneus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Carnegie Museums: Amphibians and Reptiles
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• Sternberg Museum of Natural History: Herp Collection
• University of Alberta: University of Alberta Herpetology Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 25768
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-173699
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 173699
• IUCN ID: 191093
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AAAAD01010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2084

Footnotes

1. Geoffrey Hammerson 2004. Aneides aeneus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 30 January 2012. [back]

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