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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

West Virginia Spring Salamander
Gyrinophilus subterraneus Besharse and Holsinger, 1977

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 Genome-scale phylogenetic and clustering analyses conducted by Campbell Grant et al. (2022, Conservation Genetics 23: 727–744) revealed hybridization between G. subterraneus and G. porphyriticus. Moreover, the former was found to be nested within the latter, which they interpreted as an instance of sympatric speciation where paraphyly is to be expected.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: West Virginia

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:
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
1977 Besharse, Joseph C. and John R. Holsinger. Gyrinophilus subterraneus, a new troglobitic salamander from southern West Virginia. Copeia 1977(4):624-634
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2022 Campbell Grant, Evan H., Kevin P. Mulder, Adrianne B. Brand, Douglas B. Chambers, Addison H. Wynn, Grace Capshaw, Matthew L. Niemiller, John G. Phillips, Jeremy F. Jacobs, Shawn R. Kuchta, and Rayna C. Bell Speciation with gene flow in a narrow endemic West Virginia cave salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus). Conservation Genetics 23(2022):727–744

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