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{{Short description|Genus of amphibians}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Hemphillian|recent|ref=<ref name=fossilworks/>}} |image=Adult Female Plethodon cinereus.jpg |image_caption=[[Red-backed salamander]] (''Plethodon cinereus'') |taxon=Plethodon |authority=[[Johann Jakob von Tschudi|Tschudi]], 1838 | synonyms = {{genus list | Sauropsis | [[Leopold Fitzinger|Fitzinger]], 1843 | Hightonia | Vieites, Román, [[Marvalee Wake|Wake]], and [[David B. Wake|Wake]], 2011 }} | synonyms_ref = <ref name=Frost/> }} '''''Plethodon''''' is a genus of [[salamander]]s in the family [[Plethodontidae]]. They are commonly known as '''woodland salamanders'''.<ref name=Frost/> All members of the genus are [[endemic]] to North America (Canada and the United States).<ref name=Frost/> They have no aquatic larval stage. In some species, such as the [[red-backed salamander]] (''[[Plethodon cinereus]]'').<ref name=IUCN/> Young hatch in the adult form.<ref name=IUCN/> Members of ''Plethodon'' primarily eat small invertebrates.<ref name=adwPcinereus/> The earliest known fossils of this genus are from the [[Hemphillian]] of [[Tennessee]] in the United States.<ref name=fossilworks/>
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