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Chattooga Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus perlapsus Neill, 1950

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Elevated from the synonymy of Desmognathus ocoee by Pyron and Beamer (2022, Zootaxa, 5190: 207–240).

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Province/State Distribution:

First instance(s) of published English names:
Tallulah Salamander (Desmognathus perlapsus: 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:
1950 Neill, W. T. A new species of salamander, genus Desmognathus, from Georgia. Publications of the Research Division, Ross Allen's Reptile Institute. Silver Springs 1:1–6
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
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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