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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Southern Grotto Salamander
Eurycea braggi (Smith, 1968)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Removed from the synonymy of E. spelaea by Phillips et al. (2017, Journal of Biogeography 44: 2463–2474) based on phylogenetic and clustering analysis of genome-scale data and population-level sampling from across the range of the nominal taxon. The Standard English name "Southern Grotto Salamander" was used by Raffaëlli (2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World. Plumelec, France).

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Province/State Distribution:

First instance(s) of published English names:
Veil-eyed Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Blind Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Ozarks Blind Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: Smith, Hobart M. 1934. The Amphibians of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 15(4):377-527); Grotto Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: 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); Southern Grotto Salamander (Eurycea braggi: Raffaelli, J. 2022. Salamanders & Newts of the World. Plumelec, France: Penclen Édition.. pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1939 Blair, Albert P. Records of the salamander Typhlotriton. Copeia 1939(2):108-109
1965 Brandon, Ronald A. Typhlotriton, T. nereus, T. spealaeus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (20):1-2
1968 Smith, C. C. A new Typhlotriton from Arkansas (Amphibia Caudata). Wasmann Journal of Biology 26:156–159
1970 Brandon, Ronald A. Typhlotriton, T. spelaeus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (84):1-2
1970 Brandon, Ronald A. and Jeffery H. Black. The taxonomic status of Typhlotriton braggi (Caudata, Plethodontidae). Copeia 1970(2):388-391
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2004 Bonett, Ronald M. and Paul T. Chippindale. Speciation, phylogeography and evolution of life history and morphology in plethodontid salamanders of the Eurycea multiplicata complex. Molecular Ecology 13(5):1189-1203
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2017 Phillips, John G., Dante B. Fenolio, Sarah L. Emel, and Ronald M. Bonett. Hydrologic and geologic history of the Ozark Plateau drive phylogenomic patterns in a cave-obligate salamander. Journal of Biogeography 44:2463–2474
2022 Raffaelli, J. Salamanders & Newts of the World. Plumelec, France: Penclen Édition.. pp.

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