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Cascade Caverns Salamander
Eurycea latitans Smith and Potter, 1946

Current SSAR 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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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

Pertinent LIterature:
1946 Smith, Hobart M. and Jr. F. E. Potter. A third neotenic salamander of the genus Eurycea from Texas. Herpetologica 3():105-109
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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