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Oklahoma Salamander
Eurycea tynerensis Moore and Hughes, 1939

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas Kansas Missouri Oklahoma

First instance(s) of published English names:
Many-ribbed Salamander (Spelerpes multiplicatus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Oklahoma Neotenic Salamander (Eurycea tynerensis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Gray-bellied Salamander (Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster: 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); Oklahoma Salamander (Eurycea tynerensis: 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

Selected References:
1939 Moore, G. A. and R. C. Hughes. A new plethodontid from Eastern Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 22(3):696-699
1965 Dundee, Harold A. Eurycea tynerensis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (22):1-2
1990 Tumlison, R., George R. Cline, and P. Zwank. Morphological discrimination between Oklahoma salamander (Eurycea tynerensis) and the graybelly salamander (Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster). Copeia 1990(1):242-246
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2001 Cline, George R. and RennTumlison. Distribution and relative abundance of the Oklahoma salamander (Eurycea tynerensis). Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 81:1-10
2004 Bonett, Ronald M. and Paul T. Chippindale. Speciation, phylogeography and evolution of life history and morphology in plethodontid salamanders of the Eurycea multiplicata complex. Molecular Ecology 13(5):1189-1203
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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