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Western Lesser Siren
Siren nettingi Goin, 1942

Current SSAR Comments:
This taxon was resurrected as a full species by Fedler et al. (2023, Zootaxa 5358: 351–378), and includes S. i. texana Goin, 1957, though this giant form from southern Texas and northern Mexico may represent a distinct species.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Netting's Dwarf Siren (Siren intermedia nettingi: 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:
1942 Goin, Coleman J. Description of a new race of Siren intermedia Le Conte. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 29():211–217
1957 Goin, Coleman J. Description of a new salamander of the genus Siren from the Rio Grande. Herpetologica 13():37-42
1973 Martof, Bernard S. Siren intermedia. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (127):1-3
1992 Flores-Villela, Oscar and Ronald A. Brandon. Siren lacertina (Amphibia: Caudata) in northeastern Mexico and southern Texas. Annals of Carnegie Museum 61(4):289-291
2014 Fouquette, Martin J., Jr. and Alain DuBois. A Checklist of North American Amphibians and Reptiles: The United States and Canada. Xlibris, Bloomington, Indiana. 614pp.
2015 LaFortune, Taylor C. Species identification and habitat assessment of the South Texas siren. Thesis. University of Texas at Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas. 91pp.
2022 Tighe, K. A. Catalog of type specimens of Recent Caudata and Gymnophiona in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (654):1–91
2023 Fedler, M. T., Kevin M. Enge, and Paul E. Moler. Unraveling Siren (Caudata:Sirenidae) systematics and description of a small, seepage specialist. Zootaxa 5258(4):351-378

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