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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Hickory Nut Gorge Green Salamander
Aneides caryaensis Patton, Apodaca, Corser, Wilson, Williams, Cameron, and Wake, 2019

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
New Species. Delimited from A. aeneus by Patton et al. (2019, Copeia 107(4): 748-763).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: North Carolina

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1950 Lowe, Charles H., Jr. The systematic status of the salamander Plethodon hardii, with a discussion of biogeographical problems in Aneides. Copeia 1950:92-99
1974 Wake, David B. Aneides. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (157):1-2
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2019 Patton, A., J. J. Apodaca, J. D. Corser, C. R. Wilson, L. A. Williams, A. D. Cameron, and David B. Wake. A new Green Salamander in the southern Appalachians: Evolutionary history of Aneides aeneus and implications for management and conservation with the description of a cryptic microendemic species. Copeia 2019:748–763

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