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Many-ribbed Salamander
Eurycea multiplicata (Cope, 1869)

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas Oklahoma

First instance(s) of published English names:
Many-ribbed Triton (Spelerpes multiplicatus: 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); Many-ribbed Salamander (Eurycea multiplicata: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Gray-bellied Salamander (Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Many-ribbed Salamander (Eurycea multiplicata multiplicata: 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:
1869 Cope, Edward D. A review of the species of the Plethodontidae and Desmognathidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 21:93-118
1950 Dundee, Harold A. Notes on the type locality of Eurycea multiplicata (Cope). Herpetologica 6(2):27-28
1965 Dundee, Harold A. Eurycea multiplicata. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (21):1-2
1990 Tumlison, R., George R. Cline, and P. Zwank. Morphological discrimination between Oklahoma salamander (Eurycea tynerensis) and the graybelly salamander (Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster). Copeia 1990(1):242-246
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
2004 Bonett, Ronald M. and Paul T. Chippindale. Speciation, phylogeography and evolution of life history and morphology in plethodontid salamanders of the Eurycea multiplicata complex. Molecular Ecology 13(5):1189-1203
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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