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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
Dwarf Black-bellied Salamander
Desmognathus folkertsi
Camp, Tilley, Austin, and Marshall, 2002
Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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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
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iNaturalist
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Pertinent LIterature:
2002
Camp, Carlos D., Stephen G. Tilley, Richard M. Austin, Jr., and Jeremy L. Marshall. A new species of Black-Bellied Salamander (genus
Desmognathus
) from the Appalacian Mountains of northern Georgia. Herpetologica 58(4):471-484
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