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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Tennessee Cave Salamander
Gyrinophilus palleucus McCrady, 1954

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

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Georgia Tennessee

First instance(s) of published English names:
Tennessee Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus: 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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iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1954 McCrady, Edward. A new species of Gyrinophilus (Plethodontidae) from Tennessee caves. Copeia 1954:200-206
1961 Blair, Albert P. Metamorphosis of Pseudotriton palleucus with iodine. Copeia 1961:499
1966 Brandon, Ronald A. Systematics of the salamander genus Gyrinophilus. Illinois Biological Monographs (35):1-86
1967 Brandon, Ronald A. Gyrinophilus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (31):1-2
1967 Brandon, Ronald A. Gyrinophilus palleucus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (32):1-2
1971 Brandon, Ronald A. North American troglobitic salamanders: Some aspects of modification in cave habitats, with special reference to Gyrinophilus palleucus. Bulletin of the National Speleological Society 33(1):1-21
1976 Simmons, Douglas. A naturally metamorphosed Gyrinophilus palleucus (Amphibia, Urodela, Plethodontidae). Journal of Herpetology 10(3):255-257
1991 Collins, Joseph T. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibins and reptiles Herpetological Review 22(2):42-43
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2008 Niemiller, Matthew L., B. M. Fitzpatrick, and Brian T. Miller. Recent divergence with gene flow in Tennessee cave salamanders (Plethodontidae: Gyrinophilus) inferred from gene genealogies. Molecular Ecology 17:2258–2275
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2012 Miller, Brian T. and Niemiller, Matthew L. Gyrinophilus palleucus Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (884):1-7
2014 Crother, Brian I. The bold taxonomic hypotheses of Collins (1991): 23 years later. Herpetological Review 45(2):268-272

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