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Last update: 24 July, 2003

A monotypic genus of small slender salamander from northern America.

Hemidactylium Tschudi, 1838
(Type = Salamandra scutata Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
Cotobotes Gistel, 1848
(Type = Salamandra scutata Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
Desmodactylus Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854
(Type = Salamandra scutata Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
Dermodactylus David, 1872 Lapsus
Hemidactylium scutatum (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
Batrachoseps scutatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
Cotobotes scutatum (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
Desmodactylus melanostictus (Gibbes, 1845)
Desmodactylus scutatus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1838)
Salamandra melanosticta Gibbes, 1845
Salamandra scutata Temminck & Schlegel, 1838
Distribution: Canada and USA.
Literature
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