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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Cherokee Mountain Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus adatsihi Pyron and Beamer, 2022

SSAR 9th Edition 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

Selected References:
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
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
1996 Titus, Tom A. and Allan Larson. Molecular phylogenetics of Desmognathine salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae): A reevaluation of evolution in ecology, life history, and morphology. Systematic Biology 45(4):451-472
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
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
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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