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Cumberland Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus abditus Anderson & Tilley - 9/20/2003
2003. Anderson, Jennifer A. & Stephen G. Tilley. Systematics of the Desmognathus ochrophaeus Complex in the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee. Herpetological Monographs 17: 75-110.
A new species of Dusky Salamander that is restricted to the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, hence the standard common name, as recommended by the authors.
Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander
Eurycea chamberlaini Harrison & Guttman - 7/12/2003
2003. A New Species of Eurycea (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from North and South Carolina. Southeastern Naturalist 2(2): 159-178.
Known from portions of the Piedmont of North and South Carolina, the upper Coastal Plain of South Carolina and portions of the central Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Sympatric with E. quadridigitata in Barnwell County, South Carolina.
Scott Bar Salamander
Plethodon asupak Mead, Clayton, Nauman, Olsen & Pfrender - 5/17/2005
2005. Newly Discovered Populations of Salamanders from Siskiyou
County, California, Represent a Species Distinct from Plethodon stormi.
Herpetologica 61(2): 158-177.
Modified abstract of the paper: Plethodon stormi [Siskiyou Mountains
Salamander] and Plethodon elongatus [Del Norte Salamander] are two closely
related species of plethodontid salamanders that are restricted to the Klamath
Province of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon. Discovery of
three localities south of the Klamath River, in the Scott River drainage, not
assignable to either P. elongatus or P. stormi, motivated closer examination of
this complex. We describe molecular (mitochondrial DNA) and morphological
variation among specimens collected from the three newly discovered
populations and compare these to populations of P. elongatus and P. stormi from
Siskiyou County, California and Jackson and Josephine Counties, Oregon.
Analyses of mitochondrial sequence data from the ATPase 6 and cytochrome b
genes recovered clades corresponding to P. elongatus, P. stormi and the Scott
River populations. Multivariate analyses indicate that Scott River drainage
animals are morphologically distinct from P. elongatus and P. stormi.. Because both genetic and morphological data indicate that the Scott River populations are
distinctive, we provide a description of a new species, Plethodon asupak, to
reflect the evolutionary history of this group and facilitate species management.
Louise Mead, the senior author (in a pers. comm. to CNAH), gave this new amphibian the standard common name Scott Bar Salamander.
A color image of this new salamander may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1241
Big Levels Salamander
Plethodon sherando Highton - 11/22/2004
2004. Highton, Richard. A new species of Woodland Salamander of the Plethodon cinereus group from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Jeffersoniana 14: 1-22.
Abstract (from Jeffersoniana web site)
Plethodon sherando is described from the Big Levels area of Augusta County, Virginia. It differs from P. cinereus in details of coloration, in having longer legs and fewer vertebrae, as well as in several allozyme values.
CNAH Note: This new amphibian is known only from Augusta County, Virginia. Standard common name is that recommended by the author. This is the tenth species of Woodland Salamander known from the central Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.
A color image of this new salamander may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1242
Kern Plateau Salamander
Batrachoseps robustus Wake, Yanev, & Hansen - 1/13/2003
2002 Copeia 4:1016-1028
Distributed in the Kern Plateau, western margins of
Owens Valley, and Scodie Mts., of the southern Sierra Nevada region of Inyo and Kern counties, California.
Dwarf Blackbelly Salamander
Desmognathus folkertsi Camp, Tilley, Austin, & Marshall - 10/29/2002
2002. Camp, Carlos D., Stephen G. Tilley, Richard M. Austin, Jr., and Jeremy L. Marshall. A New Species of Black-bellied Salamander (Genus Desmognathus) from the Appalachian Mountains of Northern Georgia. Herpetologica 58(4): 471-484.
Range: Union County, Georgia, and (possibly) Cherokee County, North Carolina.
A color image of this salamander can be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1234
Slowinski's Corn Snake
Elaphe slowinskii Burbrink - 9/4/2002
2002. Burbrink, Frank T. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25(3): 465-476.
A new species of Corn Snake from Louisiana and eastern Texas.
Cajun Chorus Frog
Pseudacris fouquettei Lemmon, Lemmon, Collins & Cannatella - 1/9/2008
2008. Emily M. Lemmon, Alan R. Lemmon, Joseph T. Collins, and David C. Cannatella. A New North American Chorus Frog Species (Pseudacris: Hylidae: Amphibia) from the South-Central United States. Zootaxa 1675: 1-30.
Known from western Mississippi, all of Louisiana and Arkansas, eastern Texas and Oklahoma, and extreme southern Missouri (Ripley County). It ranges to within a few miles of the Kansas border in eastern Oklahoma.
A color image of this new frog may be viewed at
http://www.cnah.org/detail.asp?id=1374
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