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Rich Mountain Salamander
Plethodon ouachitae Dunn and Heinze, 1933

Current SSAR 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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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
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1933 Dunn, Emmett R. and A. A. Heinze. A new salamander from the Ouachita Mountains. Copeia 1933(3):121-122
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

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