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Amphibia
Caudata
Plethodontidae
Dixie Caverns Salamander
Plethodon dixi
Pope and Fowler, 1949
Current SSAR Comments:
Elevated from the synonymy of
Plethodon wehrlei
by Kuchta et al. (2018, Zoologica Scripta 47: 285–299).
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Dixie Caverns Salamander
(
Plethodon dixi
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Dunn's Cave Salamander
(
Plethodon dixi
: Schmidt, Karl P.
1953
. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Roanoke Salamander
(
Plethodon dixi
: 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:
1949
Pope, Clifford H., and J. A. Fowler. A new species of salamander (
Plethodon
) from southwestern Virginia. Natural History Miscellanea. Chicago (47):1–4
2018
Kuchta, Shawn R., Ashley D. Brown, and Richard Highton. Disintegrating over space and time: Paraphyly and species delimitation in the Wehrle’s Salamander complex. Zoologica Scripta 47(3):285–299
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