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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Brown-backed Salamander
Eurycea aquatica Rose and Bush, 1963
yoo-ree-SEE-uh — uh-KWAA-teh-kaw

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: 2023.04.08.20.59.19)
Download GeoJSON polygon range file: - 0.14 MB

Province/State Distribution:
USA: Alabama Georgia Tennessee

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:
1963 Rose, Francis L. and F. M. Bush. A new species of Eurycea (Amphibia: Caudata) from the southeastern United States. Tulane Studies in Zoology 10:121–128
1971 Rose, Francis L. Eurycea aquatica. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (116):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
2009 Lucas, Lauren K., Zachariah Gompert, James R. Ott, and Chris C. Nice. Geographic and genetic isolation in spring-associated Eurycea salamanders endemic to the Edwards Plateau region of Texas. Conservation Genetics 10:1309-1319
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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