Carolina Mountain Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus carolinensis
(Dunn, 1916)
dez-mog-NAWK-us — kare-uh-line-EN-sis
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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Etymology:
Named for the Carolinas in the southeastern U.S.
Desmognathus — Greek desmos = “ligament” + gnathos = “jaw”
carolinensis — Latinized toponym meaning “of Carolina” — found in or near the Carolinas.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Blue Ridge Mountain Salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus carolinensis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1916
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Dunn, Emmert R. Two new salamanders of the genus Desmognathus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 29:73–76
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1993
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Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
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1996
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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
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2000
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White, Matthew M., Fer Vallejo, and Stephen R. Reilly. Fine-scale genetic differentiation in the Carolina Mountain Dusky Salamander, Desmognathus carolinensis. Journal of Herpetology 34(2):298-302
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2008
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Tilley, Stephen G., Renee L. Eriksen, and Laura A. Katz. Systematics of dusky salamanders, Desmognathus (Caudata: Plethodontidae), in the mountain and Piedmont regions of Virginia and North Carolina, USA. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 152:115-130
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2010
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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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