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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Blacksburg Salamander
Plethodon jacksoni Newman, 1954

Current SSAR Comments:
Elevated from the synonymy of Plethodon wehrlei by Felix et al. (2019, Zootaxa 4609: 429–448).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1954 Newman, W. B. A new plethodontid slamander from southwestern Virgiania. Herpetologica 10():9–14
1961 Cochran, Doris M. Type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in the United States National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (220):1-289
2019 Felix, Zachary I., Jessica A. Wooten, Todd W. Pierson, and Carlos D. Camp. Re-evaluation of the Wehrle’s salamander (Plethodon wehrlei Fowler and Dunn) species group (Caudata: Plethodontidae) using genomic data, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4609(3):429–448

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