Necturus mounti
Guyer, Murray, Bart, Crother, Chabarria, Bailey, and Dunn, 2020
NEK-tur-us — MOUNT-eye
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
New Species. Delimited from N. punctatus by Guyer et al. (2020, Journal of Natural History 54: 15–51).
(Pyron, R. Alexander, Christopher K. Beachy, David A. Beamer, and Kenneth M. Kozak. 2025. Caudata – Salamanders. Pages 10-21 in Kirsten E. Nicholson (Editor), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 9th Edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 pp.)
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Taxonomic Etymology:
Named in honor of a biologist who worked on the species.
Necturus — From Greek nekton and oura, meaning “swimming tail,” describing its aquatic locomotion.
mounti — A patronym honoring Robert H. Mount (1928–2017), a respected herpetologist and author of The Reptiles and Amphibians of Alabama, who contributed significantly to the study of the southeastern U.S. herpetofauna.
First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1985
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Sessions, Stanley K. and John E. Wiley. Chromosome evolution in salamanders of the genus Necturus. Brimleyana (10):37-52
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1988
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Maxson, Linda R., Paul E. Moler, B. W. Mansell, and L. R. Maxson. Albumin Evolution in Salamanders of the Genus Necturus. Journal of Herpetology 22(2):231-235
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2020
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Guyer, Craig, C. M. Murray, H. L. Bart, Jr., Brian I. Crother, R. E. Chabarria, M. A. Bailey, and K. Dunn. Colour and size reveal hidden diversity of Necturus (Caudata: Proteidae) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States. Journal of Natural History. London 54(1-4):15–51
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