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Texas Blind Salamander
Eurycea rathbuni (Stejneger, 1896)

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:
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
  
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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1896 Stejneger, Leonhard H. 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
1957 Dundee, Harold A. Partial metamorphosis induced in Typhlomolge rathbuni. Copeia 1957:52-53
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
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
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
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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