Pseudotriton

For a genus of frogs, see Parsley frog.

Pseudotriton is a genus of salamanders in the family Plethodontidae. They are endemic to eastern and southern United States, from New York south to Florida and west to southern Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and eastern Louisiana. They are commonly known as red salamanders or mud salamanders.^[1]

Pseudotriton
Pseudotriton montanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Plethodontidae
Subfamily:	Hemidactyliinae
Genus:	Pseudotriton Tschudi, 1838
Type species
Salamandra subfusca Green, 1818
Diversity
2 or 4 species (see text)
Synonyms
Mycetoglossus Bonaparte, 1839 Batrachopsis Fitzinger, 1843 Pelodytes Gistel, 1848

Species

The number of species depends on the source. The Amphibian Species of the World lists the following four species:^[1]

• Pseudotriton diastictus Bishop, 1941 — midland mud salamander
• Pseudotriton flavissimus (Hallowell, 1856) — Gulf Coast mud salamander
• Pseudotriton montanus Baird, 1850 — mud salamander
• Pseudotriton ruber (Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801) — red salamander

However, AmphibiaWeb lists only two species as it treats Pseudotriton diastictus and P. flavissimus as subspecies of Pseudotriton montanus,^[2] as does the International Union for Conservation of Nature.^[3]