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Yellow-spotted woodland salamander
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Plethodontidae
Subfamily:	Plethodontinae
Genus:	Plethodon
Species:	P. pauleyi
Binomial name
Plethodon pauleyi Felix, Wooten, Pierson, and Camp, 2019

The yellow-spotted woodland salamander (Plethodon pauleyi) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the United States, where it is distributed throughout the Cumberland Plateau in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. Its natural habitat is temperate forest. It was long considered to be both an isolated western population and a unique yellow-spotted color morph of the Wehrle's salamander (P. wehrlei), but a study published in 2019 found it to be a distinct species.

References

1. IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2023). "Plethodon pauleyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2023: e.T152360383A152360393. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T152360383A152360393.en. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
2. Camp, Carlos D.; Pierson, Todd W.; Wooten, Jessica A.; Felix, Zachary I. (2019-05-24). "Re-evaluation of the Wehrle's salamander ( Plethodon wehrlei Fowler and Dunn) species group (Caudata: Plethodontidae) using genomic data, with the description of a new species". Zootaxa. 4609 (3): 429–448. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4609.3.2. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 31717092. S2CID 181533495.
3. "AmphibiaWeb - Plethodon pauleyi". amphibiaweb.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.

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