Lungless Salamander
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Desmognathinae |
Lungless salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) are salamanders which do not have lungs and instead conduct respiration through their skin and the tissues lining their mouth. Currently approximately 536 species of plethodont salamanders are known, making up the majority of known species (Min et al., 2005). Only two of these species are found outside the Western hemisphere, one in Italy and one in Korea.
Plethodontidae includes several genera:
- Subfamily Desmognathinae
- Dusky Salamanders (Desmognathus) - 19 species
- Red Hills Salamanders (Phaeognathus) - 1 species
- Subfamily Plethodontinae
- Arboreal Salamanders (Aneides) - 6 species
- Slender Salamanders (Batrachoseps) - 20 species
- Bolitoglossa - 85 species
- Bradytriton - 1 species
- Chiropterotriton - 12 species
- Cryptotriton - 6 species
- Dendrotriton - 6 species
- Ensatina - 1 species
- Eurycea - 60 species
- Gyrinophilus - 4 species
- Haideotriton - 1 species
- Hemidactylium - 1 species
- Hydromantes - 10 species
- Ixalotriton - 2 species
- Karsenia - 1 species
- Lineatriton - 3 species
- Nototriton - 13 species
- Nyctanolis - 1 species
- Oedipina - 23 species
- Parvimolge - 1 species
- Woodland Salamanders (Plethodon) - 55 species
- Pseudoeurycea - 36 species
- Pseudotriton - 2 species
- Stereochilus - 1 species
- Thorius - 24 species
- Typhlomolge - 1 species
References
Min, M.S., S. Y. Yang, R. M. Bonett, D. R. Vieites, R. A. Brandon & D. B. Wake. (2005). Discovery of the first Asian plethodontid salamander. Nature (435), 87-90 (5 May 2005).nl:Plethodontidae fr:Plethodontidae