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Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus ochrophaeus Cope, 1859

Current SSAR Comments:
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Yellow Desmognath (Desmognathus ochrophaea: 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.); Yellow Desmognath (Desmonathus ochrophaea: Jordan, David S. 1878. 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. Second Edition, Revised, and Enlarged. Jansen, McClurg & Company, Chicago. pp.); Triton (Desmognatus ochrophaea: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Gray Salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaea: Rhoads, Samuel N. 1895. Contributions to the zoology of Tennessee. No. 1, Reptiles and amphibians. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 47():376-407); Round-tailed Triton (Desmagnathus ochrophea: Brimley, Clement S. 1915. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206); Allegheny Mountain Salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Allegheny Mountain Salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus ochrophaeus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Mountain Salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus: 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
  
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Pertinent LIterature:
1859 Cope, Edward D. On the primary divisions of the Salamandridae, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 11():122-128
1981 Karlin, Alvan A., and Sheldon I. Guttman. Hybridization between Desmognathus fuscus and Desmognathus ochrophaeus (Amphibia: Urodela: Plethodontidae) in Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsylvania. Copeia 1981(2):371-377

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