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Title: Natural History of the Salamander, Aneides hardii

Author: Richard F. Johnston
Gerhard A. Schad

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University of Kansas Publications
Museum of Natural History

Vol. 10, No. 8, pp. 573-585
October 8, 1959

NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALAMANDER,
ANEIDES HARDII

BY

RICHARD F. JOHNSTON AND GERHARD A. SCHAD

University of Kansas
Lawrence
1959

University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch,
Robert W. Wilson

Volume 10, No. 8, pp. 573-585
Published October 8, 1959

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED IN
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT
TOPEKA, KANSAS
1959

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NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SALAMANDER,
ANEIDES HARDII

BY

RICHARD F. JOHNSTON AND GERHARD A. SCHAD

The Sacramento Mountains Salamander, _Aneides hardii_ (Taylor), is a
plethodontid of relict distribution in the spruce-fir vegetational
formation from 8500 to 9600 feet elevation in Otero and Lincoln
counties, New Mexico. The salamanders on which most of this report is
based were collected three, four, and six miles northeast of Cloudcroft
in the Sacramento Mountains. Additional individuals were collected on
the eastern slope of Sierra Blanca, 1.5 miles southwest of Monjeau
Lookout, at about 9000 feet, Lincoln County, and in the vicinity of
Summit Springs and Koprian Springs, 9300 feet, Capitan Mountains,
Lincoln County. Certain details concerning the populations in Lincoln
County will be reported elsewhere (Schad, Stewart, and Harrington,
Canadian Jour. Zool., in press).

We would like to thank Mmes. Donna Schad and Lora Lee Johnston, Messrs.
Robert Stewart, Frederick Harrington and Ralph Raitt, and Dr. Robert
Selander fo