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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
Southern Black-bellied Salamander
Desmognathus amphileucus
Bishop, 1941
Current SSAR Comments:
Elevated from the synonymy of the invalid
Desmognathus quadramaculatus
by Pyron and Beamer (2022, Bionomina, 27: 1–43).
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Black Salamander
(
Desmognathus nigra
: Jordan, David Starr.
1876
. Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi River, and North of North Carolina and Tennessee, Exclusive of Marine Species. Jansen, McClurg, and Company, Chicago, Illinois.. 342pp.);
Black-bellied Salamander
(
Desmognathus quadramaculatus
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Taxon Links:
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
NatureServe
iNaturalist
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Pertinent LIterature:
1941
Bishop, Sherman C. Notes on salamanders with descriptions of several new forms. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (451):1–21
2022
Pyron, R. Alexander and David A. Beamer. Nomenclatural solutions for diagnosing ‘cryptic’ species using molecular and morphological data facilitate a taxonomic revision of the Black-bellied Salamanders (Urodela,
Desmognathus
‘
quadramaculatus
’) from the southern Appalachian Mountains. Bionomina 27(1):1–43
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