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Texas Salamander
Eurycea neotenes Bishop and Wright, 1937

Current SSAR Comments:
Populations from the western portions of the Pedernales and Guadalupe drainages are currently recognized as this species but are referred to as “E. sp. 1” by Devitt et al. (2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 2624–2633). There was no comment about this species in their “Taxonomic Implications” section.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Bexar County Neotenic Salamander (Eurycea neotenes neotens: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Texas Salamander (Eurycea neotenes: 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); Bexar County Salamander (Eurycea neotenes neotenes: 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:
1937 Bishop, S. C., and M. R. Wright. A new neotenic salamander from Texas. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 50():141–144.
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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