Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander Ambystoma bishopi  Goin, 1950

Taxonomic Comments:

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) using molecular evidence, recognized this western population of the Flatwoods Salamander as a distinct species and resurrected the name Ambystoma bishopi for it. The standard common name becomes Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander, as first proposed for this amphibian over a half century ago. Collins & Taggart (2009 Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians. Sixth Edition) submitted for consideration the proposal by Pauly et al. (2007 op. cit.) to divide Ambystoma cingulatum into two species to a salamander systematist group composed of Ronald Bonett, Carlos D. Camp, Paul Chippindale, Richard Highton, David M. Hillis, Allan Larson, Meredith Mahoney, David Sever, Stephen G. Tilley, Tom A. Titus, David B. Wake, and Addison Wynn and a majority of those responding agreed.