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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Flat-headed Salamander
Desmognathus planiceps Newman, 1955

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Flat-headed Salamander (Desmognathus planiceps: 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

Selected References:
1955 Newman, W. B. Desmognathus planiceps, a new salamander from Virginia. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 45:83–86
1962 Martof, Bernard S. and Francis L. Rose. The taxonomic status of the Plethodintid salamander, Desmognathus planiceps. Copeia 1962(1):215-216
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
2008 Tilley, Stephen G., Renee L. Eriksen, and Laura A. Katz. Systematics of dusky salamanders, Desmognathus (Caudata: Plethodontidae), in the mountain and Piedmont regions of Virginia and North Carolina, USA. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152:115-130
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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