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Amphibia
Caudata
Proteidae
Dwarf Waterdog
Necturus punctatus
(Gibbes, 1850)
Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Gibbes's Proteus
(
Necturus punctatus
: Yarrow, Henry C.
1882
. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249);
Water Dog
(
Necturus maculatus
: Brimley, Clement S.
1896
. Batrachia found at Raleigh, N. C. The American Naturalist 30():500-501);
Southern Water Dog
(
Necturus punctatus
: Brimley, Clement S.
1915
. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206);
Mobile Waterdog
(
Necturus lodingi
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Dwarf Waterdog
(
Necturus punctatus
: 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
Pertinent LIterature:
1850
Gibbes, L. R. On a new species of
Menobranchus
(
punctatus
) from South Carolina. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1850():159
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