Ouachita Streambed Salamander
Eurycea subfluvicola
Steffen, Irwin, Blair, and Bonett, 2014
yoor-EE-see-uh — sub-FLOO-vih-koh-lah
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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Province/State Distribution:
United States: Arkansas
Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for its underground aquatic habitat.
Eurycea — Rafinesque (1822) intentionally used a mythological-sounding name, but its specific Greek meaning or derivation was not disclosed. So, while modern etymologists may connect Eurycea to Eurydice or Greek roots (eurys “broad”), Rafinesque himself treated it as a classical name without a defined origin.
subfluvicola — Latin sub- = “under,” fluvius = “river,” -cola = “dweller”; “Under-river dweller”
First instance(s) of published English names:
Ouachita Streambed Salamander (Eurycea subfluvicola: Steffen, Michael A., Kelly J. Irwin , Andrea L. Blair, and Ronald M. Bonett. 2014. Larval masquerade: A new species of paedomorphic salamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Eurycea) from the Ouachita Mountains of North America. Zootaxa 3786(4):423-442);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1993
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Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
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2009
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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
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2010
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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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2014
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Steffen, Michael A., Kelly J. Irwin , Andrea L. Blair, and Ronald M. Bonett. Larval masquerade: A new species of paedomorphic salamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Eurycea) from the Ouachita Mountains of North America. Zootaxa 3786(4):423-442
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