AMPHIUMIDAE, Gray, 1825

Krysko, Kenneth L., Burgess, Joseph P., Rochford, Michael R., Gillette, Christopher R., Cueva, Daniel, Enge, Kevin M., Somma, Louis A., Stabile, Jennifer L., Smith, Dustin C., Wasilewski, Joseph A., Kieckhefer Iii, Guy N., Granatosky, Michael C. & Nielsen, Stuart V., 2011, 3028, Zootaxa 3028, pp. 1-64 : 21

AMPHIUMIDAE

The Three-toed Amphiuma , Amphiuma tridactylum Cuvier 1827 , is indigenous to southeastern Texas, east to Alabama and north to southern Illinois and southwestern Kentucky ( Conant & Collins 1998). Carr (1940), Bishop (1943), and Carr and Goin (1955) suggested that A. tridactylum might occur as an indigenous species in several Florida panhandle counties, but this was based on a misunderstanding of amphiumid taxonomy, and no voucher of this species exists for this region. On 3 December 2009 at 2245 h, CRG and DC found seven and collected five adult A. tridactylum (UF 157220; MorphoBank M88442 ; Fig. 6; photographic voucher UF 157286 of four different individuals) in the same puddle of water as above (see Hypselotriton orientalis species account) just outside the property of the animal importer's facility at 6450 Stirling Road, Hollywood, Broward County (26.04591 o N, - 80.21976 o W). On various other nights at this same site, CRG observed additional adult A. tridactylum , but these salamanders escaped back into the pipe before they could be photographed or captured. On 8 October 2010 at 2230 h, DC, Jake Edwards and Suzanne Hurley collected another adult A. tridactylum (photographic voucher UF 163094) at this same site. This species likely was released or had escaped (stage 2) from an enclosure. These represent the first known vouchers for this species in Florida.