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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Wolf Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus lycos Pyron and Beamer, 2023

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 New Species. Delimited from D. fuscus by Pyron and Beamer (2023, Zootaxa 5311: 451–504).

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

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:
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
2023 Pyron, R. Alexander and David A. Beamer. Systematic revision of the Spotted and Northern Dusky Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus conanti and D. fuscus), with six new species from the eastern United States. Zootaxa 5311(4):451–504

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