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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
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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