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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
Pygmy Salamander
Desmognathus wrighti
King, 1936
Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Pygmy Salamander
(
Desmognathus wrighti
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Pigmy Salamander
(
Desmognathus wrighti
: 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:
1936
King, Willis. A new salamander (Desmognathus) from the southern Appalachians. Herpetologica 1():57-60, 1 plate
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