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Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus ochrophaeus Cope, 1859

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
Canada: Ontario Quebec
USA: Kentucky Maryland New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Tennessee Virginia West Virginia

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
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
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
1968 Shontz, Nancy Nickerson. Electrophoretic patterns of proteins of salamanders of the genus Desmognathus (Family Plethodontidae). Copeia 1968(4):683-692
1969 Tilley, Stephen G. Variation in the dorsal pattern of Desmognathus ochrophaeus at Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina, and elsewhere in the southern Appalachian Mountains. Copeia 1969:169-175
1973 Tilley, Stephen G. Desmognathus ochrophaeus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (129):1-4
1976 Tilley, Stephen G. Allozymic variation and occurrence of multiple inseminations in populations of the salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus. Copeia 1976(4):734-741
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
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
1995 Sharbel, Timothy F., Joel Bonin, Leslie A. Lowcock, and David M. Green. Partial genetic compatibility and unidirectional hybridization in syntopic populations of the salamanders Desmognathus fuscus and D. ochrophaeus. Copeia 1995(2):466-469
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
2006 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Does niche conservatism promote speciation? A case study in North American salamanders. Evolution 60(12):2604-2621
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389

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