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Cascade Caverns Salamander
Eurycea latitans Smith and Potter, 1946

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Devitt et al. (2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 2624–2633) placed E. tridentifera in the synonymy of E. latitans based on phylogenetic and clustering analysis of genome-scale data and population-level sampling from the type locality of both taxa.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
Cascade Cavern Neotenic Salamander (Eurycea neotenes latitans: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Cascade Cavern Salamander (Eurycea neotenes latitans: 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

Selected References:
1946 Smith, Hobart M. and Jr. F. E. Potter. A third neotenic salamander of the genus Eurycea from Texas. Herpetologica 3:105-109
1967 Brown, Bryce C. Eurycea latitans. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (34):1-2
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2003 Wiens, John J., Paul T. Chippindale and David M. Hillis. When are phylogenetic analyses misled by convergence? A case study in Texas cave salamanders. Systematic Biology 52(4):501-514
2009 Lucas, Lauren K., Zachariah Gompert, James R. Ott, and Chris C. Nice. Geographic and genetic isolation in spring-associated Eurycea salamanders endemic to the Edwards Plateau region of Texas. Conservation Genetics 10:1309-1319
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2019 Devitt, Thomas J., April M. Wright, David C. Cannatella, and David M. Hillis. Species delimitation in endangered groundwater salamanders: Implications for aquifer management and biodiversity conservation. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 116(7):2624–2633

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