Eastern Tiger Salamander Ambystoma tigrinum  (Green, 1825)
An adult specimen from Knox County, Tennessee Image © Suzanne L. Collins, 2001
Taxonomic Comments:
Powell, Collins and Hooper (1998 A Key to the Amphibians and Reptiles of the Continental United States and Canada. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence. vi + 131 pp.) recognized this lineage as a species distinct from A. mavortium.
Etymology:1
	Latin - tigrinum - tiger - refers to coloration in some specimens
Original Description:2
	Salamandra tigrina Green (1825, Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5: 116). Type: Not known to exist; USNM 3970 given as "type" by Yarrow (1882, Bulletin of the U. S. National Museum 24: 148), although this specimen is not from the stated type locality. Type locality: "near Moore's town [Moorestown, Burlington County] in New Jersey."
Distribution:
	Extreme southeastern Manitoba through Minnesota and Wisconsin to Michigan, thence south to eastern Texas; Long Island, New York, south along the Atlantic coastal plain to northern Florida and southeastern Louisiana, excluding the Mississippi embayment and the Appalachian Mountains.
References:
	See comments under Ambystoma californiense, Ambystoma mavortium, and Ambystoma tigrinum. Last revised by Irschick and Shaffer (1997, Herpetologica 53: 30-49).
1.	Data Modified From: Translations of the Scientific Names of the Reptiles and Amphibians of North America, Ellin Beltz.
2.	Data Modified From: Citations for the Original Descriptions of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. SSAR Herpetological Circular 24. Ellin Beltz, 1995.