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Dunn's Salamander
Plethodon dunni Bishop, 1934

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
 There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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Province/State Distribution:
USA: California Oregon Washington

First instance(s) of published English names:
Dunn's Salamander (Plethodon dunni: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
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iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1934 Bishop, Sherman C. Description of a new salamander from Oregon, with notes on related species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 47:169–172
1955 Storm, Robert M. Northern and southern range limits of Dunn's salamander, Plethodon dunni. Copeia 1955(1):64-65
1956 Highton, Richard. The relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainesville. 224pp.
1962 Highton, Richard. Revision of North American salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 6(3):235-267
1969 Bury, R. Bruce, Gary M. Fellers, and Stephen B. Ruth. First records of Plethodon dunni in California, and new distributional data on Ascaphus truei, Rhyacotriton olympicus, and Hydromantes shastae. Journal of Herpetology 3(3-4):157-161
1970 Storm, Robert M. and Brodie, Edmund D., Jr. Plethodon dunni. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (82):1-2
1978 Feder, J. H., G. Z. Wurst and D. B. Wake. Genetic variation in western salamanders of the genus Plethodon and the status of Plethodon gordoni. Herpetologica 34(1):64-69
1979 Highton, Richard and A. Larson. The genetic relationships of salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Systematic Zoology 28(4):579-599
1979 Maxson, Linda R., Richard Highton, and David B. Wake. Albumin evolution and its phylogenetic implications in the plethodontid salamander genera Plethodon and Ensatina. Copeia 1979(3):502-508
1991 Highton, Richard H. Molecular phylogeny of Plethodonine salamanders and Hylid frogs: Statistical analysis of protein comparisons. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(6):796-818
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2006 Kozak, Kenneth H., David W. Weisrock, and Allan Larson. Rapid lineage accumulation in a non-adaptive radiation: Phylogenetic analysis of diversification rates in eastern North American woodland salamanders (Plethodontidae: Plethodon). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2006(273):539-546
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389

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