Desmognathus ocoee
Nicholls, 1949
dez-mog-NAWK-us — oh-KOH-ee
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
This form consists of numerous parapatric units that occupy different mountain ranges in the southern Blue Ridge and Cumberland Plateau physiographic provinces (see Pyron and Beamer, 2022, Zootaxa, 5190: 207–240).
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Etymology:
Named for a river in the southern Appalachians.
Desmognathus — Greek desmos = “ligament” + gnathos = “jaw”
ocoee — Named after the Ocoee River in Tennessee, a toponym of Cherokee origin.
First instance(s) of published English names:
Ocoee Salamander (Desmognathus ocoee: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Cliffside Salamander (Desmognathus perlapsus: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1949
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Nicholls, J. C., Jr. A new salamander of the genus Desmognathus from East Tennessee. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 24:127–129
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1961
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Valentine, Barry D. Variation and distribution of Desmognathus ocoee Nicholls (Amphibia: Plethodontidae). Copeia 1961(3):315-322
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1964
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Valentine, Barry D. Desmognathus ocoee Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (7):1-2
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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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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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2022
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Pyron, R. Alexander and David A. Beamer. Systematics of the Ocoee Salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus ocoee), with description of two new species from the southern Blue Ridge Mountains. Zootaxa (5190):207–240
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