Eurycea wallacei
(Carr, 1939)
yoor-EE-see-uh — WAL-uh-see-eye
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for a collector or contributor.
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.
wallacei — Patronym, honoring Howard Keefer Wallace (1907–?), who led the Department of Zoology at the University of Florida specializing in the taxonomy and distribution of US spiders.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Georgia Blind Salamander (Haideotriton wallacei: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1939
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Carr, Archie., Jr. Haideotriton wallacei, a new subterranean salamander from Georgia. Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History 8:333–336
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1967
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Brandon, Ronald A. Haideotriton and H. wallacei. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (39):1-2
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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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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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