A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Plethodontidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Chiropterotriton ceronorum Parra-Olea, García-Castillo, Rovito, Maisano, Hanken & Wake, 2020 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton chico García-Castillo, Rovito, Wake & Parra-Olea, 2017 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton chiropterus (Cope, 1863) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton chondrostega (Taylor, 1941) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton cieloensis Rovito & Parra-Olea, 2015 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton cracens Rabb, 1958 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton dimidiatus (Taylor, 1940) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton infernalis Rovito & Parra-Olea, 2015 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton lavae (Taylor, 1942) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton magnipes Rabb, 1965 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton melipona Parra-Olea, García-Castillo, Rovito, Maisano, Hanken & Wake, 2020 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton miquihuanus Campbell, Streicher, Cox & Brodie, 2014 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton mosaueri (Woodall, 1941) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton multidentatus (Taylor, 1939) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton nubilus García-Castillo, Soto-Pozos, Aguilar-López, Pineda-Arredondo & Parra-Olea, 2018 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton orculus (Cope, 1865) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton perotensis Parra-Olea, García-Castillo, Rovito, Maisano, Hanken & Wake, 2020 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton priscus Rabb, 1956 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Chiropterotriton terrestris (Taylor, 1941) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cryptotriton alvarezdeltoroi (Papenfuss & Wake, 1987) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cryptotriton monzoni (Campbell & Smith, 1998) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cryptotriton nasalis (Dunn, 1924) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cryptotriton necopinus McCranie & Rovito, 2014 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cryptotriton sierraminensis Vásquez-Almazán, Rovito, Good & Wake, 2009 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cryptotriton veraepacis (Lynch & Wake, 1978) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cryptotriton xucaneborum Rovito, Vázquez-Almazán, Papenfuss, Parra-Olea & Wake, 2015 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton bromeliacius (Schmidt, 1936) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton chujorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo & Brodie, 2010 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton cuchumatanus (Lynch & Wake, 1975) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton kekchiorum Campbell, Smith, Streicher, Acevedo & Brodie, 2010 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton megarhinus (Rabb, 1960) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton rabbi (Lynch & Wake, 1975) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton sanctibarbarus (McCranie & Wilson, 1997) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dendrotriton xolocalcae (Taylor, 1941) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Cumberland Dusky SalamanderDesmognathus abditus Anderson & Tilley, 2003 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Seepage SalamanderDesmognathus aeneus Brown & Bishop, 1947 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmognathus anicetus Pyron & Beamer, 2023 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Apalachicola Dusky SalamanderDesmognathus apalachicolae Means & Karlin, 1989 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmognathus aureatus (Martof, 1956) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Holbrook's Southern Dusky SalamanderDesmognathus auriculatus (Holbrook, 1838) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Ouachita Dusky SalamanderDesmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger, 1895 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmognathus campi Pyron & Beamer, 2023 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Carolina Mountain Dusky SalamanderDesmognathus carolinensis Dunn, 1916 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmognathus catahoula Pyron & Beamer, 2023 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmognathus cheaha Pyron, O'Connell, Duncan, Burbrink & Beamer, 2023 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Spotted Dusky SalamanderDesmognathus conanti Rossman, 1958 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dwarf Black-bellied SalamanderDesmognathus folkertsi Camp, Tilley, Austin & Marshall, 2002 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dusky SalamanderDesmognathus fuscus (Green, 1818) | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Desmognathus gvnigeusgwotli Pyron & Beamer, 2022 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Imitator SalamanderDesmognathus imitator Dunn, 1927 | PlethodontidaeChordata | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.