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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Valdina Farms Salamander
Eurycea troglodytes Baker, 1957

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 In reference to divergent populations of this species, Devitt et al. (2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 2624–2633) states "we recognize three species, two of them new." These species remain undescribed.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Texas

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1957 Baker, James Kenneth. Eurycea troglodytes: A new blind cave salamander from Texas. Texas Journal of Science 9(3):328-336
1966 Baker, James Kenneth Eurycea troglodytes. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (23):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
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
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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