This subfamily was created by John Edward Gray (1800-1875) in 1850.

It gathers many kinds of Amphibien S located in a vast zone in America, extreme south of the Alaska of the Nova Scotia (Canada) in the east of the Brésil and center of the Bolivia, like in the south of the Europe.

List kinds

• Aneides Baird, 1851.
• Batrachoseps Bonaparte, 1839.
• Bolitoglossa Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854.
• Bradytriton Wake and Elias, 1983.
• Chiropterotriton Taylor, 1944.
• Cryptotriton García-París and Wake, 2000.
• Dendrotriton Wake and Elias, 1983.
• Ensatina Gray, 1850.
• Eurycea Rafinesque, 1822.
• Gyrinophilus Cope, 1869.
• Haideotriton Carr, 1939.
• Hemidactylium Tschudi, 1838.
• Hydromantes Gistel, 1848.
• Ixalotriton Wake and Johnson, 1989.
• Karsenia Min, Yang, Bonett, Vieites, Torch and Wake, 2005.
• Lineatriton To tan, 1950.
• Nototriton Wake and Elias, 1983.
• Nyctanolis Elias and Wake, 1983.
• Oedipina Keferstein, 1868.
• Parvimolge Taylor, 1944.
• Plethodon Tschudi, 1838.
• Pseudoeurycea Taylor, 1944.
• Pseudotriton Tschudi, 1838.
• Speleomantes Dubois, 1984.
• Stereochilus Cope, 1869.
• Thorius Cope, 1869.

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