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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
Texas Blind Salamander
Eurycea rathbuni
(Stejneger, 1896)
Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Texas Blind Salamander
(
Typhlomolge rathbuni
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Texas Blind Salamander
(
Eurycea rathbuni
: 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:
1896
Stejneger, Leonard. Description of a new genus and species of blind tailed batrachians from the subterranean waters of Texas. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 18():619–621
1965
Mitchell, Robert W., and James R. Reddell.
Eurycea tridentifera
, a new species of troglobitic Salamanders from Texas and a reclassification of
Typhlomolge rathbuni
. Texas Journal of Science 27(1):12-27
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