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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
Ocoee Salamander
Desmognathus ocoee
Nicholls, 1949
Current SSAR Comments:
This form consists of numerous parapatric units that occupy different mountain ranges in the southern Blue Ridge and Cumberland Plateau physiographic provinces (see Pyron and Beamer, 2022, Zootaxa, 5190: 207–240).
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Ocoee Salamander
(
Desmognathus ocoee
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Cliffside Salamander
(
Desmognathus perlapsus
: 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
NatureServe
iNaturalist
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Pertinent LIterature:
1949
Nicholls, J. C., Jr. A new salamander of the genus
Desmognathus
from East Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 24():127–129
2022
Pyron, R. Alexander and David A. Beamer. Systematics of the Ocoee Salamander (Plethodontidae:
Desmognathus ocoee
), with description of two new species from the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Zootaxa (5190):207–240
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