Name - Cryptobranchus Leuckart 1821

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:279935 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Cryptobranchus

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus,Higher taxon

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Cryptobranchid salamanders from the Paleocene and miocene of Saskatchewan.
• The hellbenders: North American 'giant salamanders'.
• Direction 52. Determination of the gender to be attributed to the generic names Cryptobranchus Leuckart, 1821 (Class Amphibia) and Eremias Wiegmann, 1834 (Class Reptilia) placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology by the Ruling given in Opinion 92.
• Direction 56. Completion and in certain cases correction of entries relating to the names of genera belonging to the Classes Pisces, Amphibia and Reptilia made in the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology in the period up to the end of 1936.
• Direction 57. Addition to the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology (a) of the specific names of forty-seven species belonging to the Classes Cyclostomata, Pisces, Amphibia and Reptilia, each of which is the type species of a genus, the name of which was placed o

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Sherborn Index Animalium

• Isis (Oken), 1821 1821: 260. [Index Animalium Entry]

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