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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Western Shovel-nosed Salamander
Desmognathus intermedius (Pope, 1928)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Elevated from the synonymy of Desmognathus marmoratus by Pyron and Beamer (2023, Zootaxa 5270: 262–280).

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:
1928 Pope, Clifford H. Some plethodontid salamanders from North Carolina and Kentucky with the description of a new race of Leurognathus. American Museum Novitates 306:1-19
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
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
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
2025 Pyron, R. Alexander, Kyle A. O'connell, Edward A. Myers, David A. Beamer, and Hector Banos. Complex hybridization in a clade of polytypic salamanders (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) uncovered by estimating higher-level phylogenetic networks. Systematic Biology 74(1):124-140

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