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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Hillis’s Dwarf Salamander
Eurycea hillisi Wray, Means, and Steppan, 2017

Current SSAR Comments:
New Species. Delimited from E. quadridigitata by Wray et al. (2017, Herpetological Monographs 31: 18–46).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
2012 Lamb, Trip and David A. Beamer. Digits lost or gained? Evidence for pedal evolution in the Dwarf Salamander Complex (Eurycea, Plethodontidae). PLoS One 7(5):1-9
2017 Wray, K. P., D. B. Means, and S. J. Steppan. Revision of the Eurycea quadridigitata (Holbrook 1842) complex of Dwarf Salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Hemidactyliinae) with a description of two new species. Herpetological Monographs 31(1):18–46

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