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Ouachita Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger, 1895

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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

First instance(s) of published English names:
Brimley's Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus brimleyorum: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Central Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus brimleyorum: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1895 Stejneger, Leonhard H. Description of a new salamander from Arkansas with notes on Ambystoma annulatum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17:597–599
1974 Means, D. Bruce. The status of Desmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger and an analysis of the genus Desmognathus (Amphibia: Urodela) in Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 18(1):1-100
1993 Karlin, Alvan A., Sheldon I. Guttman, and D. Bruce Means. Population structure in the Ouachita Mountains Dusky Salamander, Desmognathus brimleyorum (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Southwestern Naturalist 38(1):36-42
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
1999 Means, D. Bruce Desmognathus brimleyorum Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (682):1-4
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389

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