Caudata Culture Species Entry - Ambystoma cingulatum

Ambystoma cingulatum

Frosted Flatwoods Salamander

Range	USA: lower southeastern Coastal Plain of the United States from southern South Carolina southward to north-central Florida and westward to the Apalachicola and Flint rivers (mid-Panhandle of Florida and northward)
USF&W Listing	Threatened
IUCN Red Book	Vulnerable
CITES	No Listing
First described	Cope, 1868

Taxonomic Note: Pauly et al. 2007 divided A. cingulatum into two species, Ambystoma bishopi (Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander) and Ambystoma cingulatum (Frosted Flatwoods Salamander).

Reference: Pauly, Gregory B., Oliver Piskurek & H. Bradley Shaffer 2007. Phylogeographic concordance in the southeastern United States: the Flatwoods Salamander, Ambystoma cingulatum, as a test case. Molecular Ecology 16: 415-429.

Ambystoma cingulatum

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