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San Marcos Salamander
Eurycea nana Bishop, 1941

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
San Marcos Neotenic Salamander (Eurycea neotenes nana: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); San Marcos Salamander (Eurycea neotenes nana: 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:
1941 Bishop, Sherman C. Notes on salamanders with descriptions of several new forms. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (451):1–21
1967 Brown, Bryce C. Eurycea nana. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (35):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
1998 Chippindale, Paul T., Andrew H. Price, and David M. Hillis. Systematic status of the San Marcos salamander, Eurycea nana (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Copeia 1998(4):1046-1049
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
2009 Lucas, Lauren K. , Joe N. Fries, Caitlin. R. Gabor and Chris C. Nice. Genetic variation and structure in Eurycea nana, a federally threatened salamander endemic to the San Marcos Springs. Journal of Herpetology 43(2):220-227
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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