Pseudoeurycea brunnata Bumzahem & Smith, 1955
Brown false brook salamander
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1980
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Volcán Tacaná, Chiapas State (extreme eastern), México & Volcán Chicabal, Guatemala (south-western)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bumzahem, C. B. and Smith, H. M. (1955). Additional notes and descriptions of plethodontid salamanders from Mexico. Herpetologica 11: 73-75.
Other references:
Acevedo, M., Wake, D., Vasquez, C. and Rovito, S. (2008). Pseudoeurycea brunnata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T59372A11924519. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2008.RLTS.T59372A11924519.en. Downloaded on 15 October 2017.
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2020. Pseudoeurycea brunnata. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T59372A53981532. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T59372A53981532.en. Accessed on 07 July 2022.
Sean M. Rovito, Gabriela Parra-Olea, Carlos R. Vásquez-Almazán, Theodore J. Papenfuss, and David B. Wake (2009). Dramatic declines in neotropical salamander populations are an important part of the global amphibian crisis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 3231-3236.
Wake, D. B. (1987). Adaptive radiation of salamanders in Middle American cloud forests. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 74: 242-264.
Wake, D. B. and Lynch, J. F. (1976). The distribution, ecology, and evolutionary history of plethodontid salamanders in tropical America. Science Bulletin of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 25: 1-65.
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/22672/pseudoeurycea-brunnata-brown-false-salamander
Pseudoeurycea aquatica Wake and Campbell, 2001:509
Aquatic false brook salamander
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 9 April 1978
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Oaxaca, México
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Only known from 3 specimens.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Wake, D. B. and Campbell, J. A. (2001). An aquatic plethodontid salamander from Oaxaca, Mexico. Herpetologica 57(4): 509-514.
Other references:
Lamoreux, J. F., McKnight, M. W., and R. Cabrera Hernandez. (2015).
Amphibian Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. xxiv + 320pp.
Gabriela Parra-Olea and David Wake. (2008). Pseudoeurycea aquatica. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 February 2013.
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/10339/pseudoeurycea-aquatica-aquatic-salamander
Pseudoeurycea anitae Bogert, 1967:6
Anita False Brook salamander
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1976
IUCN RedList status: Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct)
Distribution
Oaxaca, Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: AMNH 76365
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Bogert, C. M. (1967). New salamanders of the plethodontid genus Pseudoeurycea from the Sierra Madre del Sur of Mexico. American Museum Novitates 2314: 1-27.
Other references:
Flores-Villela, O. and McCoy, C.J. (eds). 1993. Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. pp. 1-73. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication.
IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. (2016). Pseudoeurycea anitae. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T59368A53980953. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T59368A53980953.en. Downloaded on 08 September 2017.
Lamoreux, J. F., McKnight, M. W., and R. Cabrera Hernandez (2015). Amphibian Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites in Chiapas and Oaxaca. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. xxiv + 320pp.
http://www.inaturalist.org/projects/mexico-amphibian-redlist-assessment-forum/assessments/1167-pseudoeurycea-anitae
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/10328/pseudoeurycea-anitae
Plethodon ainsworthi Lazell, 1998
Ainsworth’s salamander, Bay Springs salamander
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
This taxon may be invalid as morphological distortion may have taken place due to improper preservation of the types (Himes & Beckett, 2013).
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 12 June 1964
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
"two miles south of Bay Springs, Jasper County, Mississippi, USA" (Hammerson, 2004)
Biology
Hypodigm
Only known from two specimens (Lazell, 1998; Hammerson, 2004)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Lazell, J. (1998). New salamander of the genus Plethodon from Mississippi. Copeia 1998: 967-970.
Other references:
Blackburn, L., Nanjappa, P. and Lannoo, M.J. 2001. An Atlas of the Distribution of U.S. Amphibians. Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA.
Geoffrey Hammerson. (2004). Plethodon ainsworthi. In: IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2012.2. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 17 February 2013.
Geoffrey Hammerson. 2004. Plethodon ainsworthi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T29488A9501575. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T29488A9501575.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Himes, John G. and Beckett, David C. (2013). The Status of Plethodon ainsworthi Lazell: Extinct, Extant, or Nonexistent? Southeastern Naturalist 12(4): 851-856. [Abstract]
Regalado, Pedro Galán. (2015). Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Año 1500. Monografías de la Universidade da Coruña 155: 1-509.
http://extinctanimals.proboards.com/thread/10341/plethodon-ainsworthi
Pseudobranchus robustus Goin & Auffenberg, 1955
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Florida, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Goin, C. J. and Auffenberg, W. (1955). The fossil salamanders of the family Sirenidae. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113(7): 497-514.