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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Apalachicola Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus apalachicolae Means and Karlin, 1989
dez-mog-NAWK-us — ap-uh-latch-eh-KOE-lee

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.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.08.31.15.48.41)
Download GeoJSON polygon range file: - 0.1 MB

Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Florida Georgia

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

Selected References:
1989 Means, D. Bruce, and A. A. Karlin. A new species of Desmognathus from the eastern Gulf Coastal Plain. Herpetologica 45:37–46
1993 Means, D. Bruce Desmognathus apalachicolae Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (556):1-2
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
1996 Titus, Tom A. and Allan Larson. Molecular phylogenetics of Desmognathine salamanders (Caudata: Plethodontidae): A reevaluation of evolution in ecology, life history, and morphology. Systematic Biology 45(4):451-472
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389

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