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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Rich Mountain Salamander
Plethodon ouachitae Dunn and Heinze, 1933

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

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas Oklahoma

First instance(s) of published English names:
Rich Mountain Salamander (Plethodon ouachitae: 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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USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1933 Dunn, Emmett R. and A. A. Heinze. A new salamander from the Ouachita Mountains. Copeia 1933(3):121-122
1956 Highton, Richard. The relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainesville. 224pp.
1957 Blair, Albert P. A comparison of living Plethodon ouachitae and Plethodon caddoensis. Copeia 1957(1):47-48
1962 Highton, Richard. Revision of North American salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 6(3):235-267
1965 Blair, Albert P. and Hague L. Lindsay, Jr. Color pattern variation and distribution of two large Plethodon salamanders endemic to the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Copeia 1965(3):331-335
1967 Blair, Albert P. Plethodon ouachitae. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (40):1-2
1974 Black, Jeffrey Howard. Notes on Plethodon ouachitae in Oklahoma. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 54:88-89
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. and John J. Wiens. Does niche conservatism promote speciation? A case study in North American salamanders. Evolution 60(12):2604-2621
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
2008 Shepard, Donald B. and Frank T. Burbrink. Lineage diversification and historical demography of a sky island salamander, Plethodon ouachitae, from the Interior Highlands. Molecular Ecology 17:5315-5335
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2011 Fisher-Reid, M. Caitlin and John J. Wiens. What are the consequences of combining nuclear and mitochondrial data for phylogenetic analysis? Lessons from Plethodon salamanders and 13 other vertebrate clades. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:1-20
2011 Shepard, Donald B., Kelly J. Irwin, and Frank T. Burbrink. Morphological differentiation in Ouachita Mountain endemic salamanders. Herpetologica 67(4):355-368

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