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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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