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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Ouachita Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger, 1895

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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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

Pertinent LIterature:
1895 Stejneger, Leonard. Description of a new salamander from Arkansas with notes on Ambystoma annulatum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17():597–599
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

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