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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Cherokee Mountain Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus adatsihi Pyron and Beamer, 2022

Current SSAR Comments:
New Species. Delimited from D. ocoee by Pyron and Beamer (2022, Zootaxa 5190: 207–240).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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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

Pertinent LIterature:
1978 Tilley, S. G., R. B. Merritt, B. Wu, and R. Highton. Genetic differentiation in salamanders of the Desmognathus ochrophaeus complex (Plethodontidae). Evolution 32():93–115
2005 Kozak, Kenneth H., Allan Larson, Ronald M. Bonett, and Luke J. Harmon. Phylogenetic analysis of ecomorphological civergence, community structure, and diversification rates in dusky salamanders (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus). Evolution 59(9):2000-2016
2020 Pyron, R. Alexander, K. A. O'Connell, Emily M. Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, and David A. Beamer. Phylogenomic data reveal reticulation and incongruence among mitochondrial candidate species in Dusky Salamanders (Desmognathus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 146(106751):1–13
2020 Beamer, David A. and Trip Lamb. Towards rectifying limitations on species delineation in dusky salamanders (Desmognathus: Plethodontidae): An ecoregion-drainage sampling grid reveals additional cryptic clades. Zootaxa 4734(1):1–61
2022 Pyron, R. Alexander and David A. Beamer. Systematics of the Ocoee Salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus ocoee), with description of two new species from the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Zootaxa (5190):207–240
2022 Pyron, R. Alexander, K. A. O'Connell, Emily M. Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, and David A. Beamer. Candidate-species delimitation in Desmognathus salamanders reveals gene flow across lineage boundaries, confounding phylogenetic estimation and clarifying hybrid zones. Ecology and Evolution 12(2: e8574):1–38

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