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Black Mountain Salamander
Desmognathus welteri Barbour, 1950

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Black Mountain Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus welteri: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Black Mountain Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus welteri: 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:
1950 Barbour, Roger W. A new subspecies of the salamander Desmognathus fuscus. Copeia 1950():277–278

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