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Northern Shovel-nosed Salamander
Desmognathus marmoratus (Moore, 1899)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Pyron and Beamer (2023, Zootaxa 5270: 262–280) revised the D. marmoratus complex and resurrected a previous Standard English Name from Schmidt (1953, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois) for the nominotypical species to differentiate it from D. intermedius and D. aureatus.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Georgia North Carolina Tennessee Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Moore's Triton (Leurognathus marmoratus: Brimley, Clement S. 1915. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206); Shovel-nosed Salamander (Leurognathus marmorata: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Southern Shovel-nosed Salamander (Leurognathus marmorata intermedia: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Northern Shovel-nosed Salamander (Leurognathus marmorata marmorata: 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
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1899 Moore, J. P. Leurognathus marmorata, a new genus and species of salamander of the family Desmognathidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 51:316–323
1953 Schmidt, Karl P. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.
1963 Martof, Bernard S. Leurognathus and L. marmoratus Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (3):1-2
1974 Valentine, Barry D. Desmognathus quadramaculatus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (153):1-4
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
1995 Voss, S. Randal, David G. Smith, Christopher K. Beachy, and David G. Heckel. Allozyme variation in neighboring isolated populations of the plethodontid salamander Leurognathus marmoratus. Journal of Herpetology 29(3):493-497
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 A systematic revision of the Shovel-nosed Salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus marmoratus), with re-description of the related D. aureatus and D. intermedius. Zootaxa 5270(2):262-280
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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