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Southern Two-lined Salamander
Eurycea cirrigera (Green, 1831)

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.20.59.18)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Mississippi North Carolina Ohio South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia

First instance(s) of published English names:
Green's Triton (Spelerpes bilineatus: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Two-striped Salamander (Spelerpes bilineatus: Davis, N. S., and Frank L. Rice. 1883. List of Batrachia and Reptilia of Illinois. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 1(3):25–32); Striped Salamander (Spelerpes bilineatus: Brimley, Clement S. 1896. Batrachia found at Raleigh, N. C. The American Naturalist 30():500-501); Southern Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata cirrigera: 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:
1831 Green, J. Description of two new species of salamander. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 6:253–255
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Amphibians and reptiles in the upper Mississippi river valley: Systematic and distributional problems. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 66(4):149-152
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
1999 Sever, David M. Eurycea cirrigera Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (684):1-6
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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