Carolina Sandhills Salamander
Eurycea arenicola
Stuart, Beamer, Farrington, Beane, Chek, Pusser, Som, Stephan, Sever, and Braswell, 2020
yoor-EE-see-uh — uh-REN-ih-ko-luh
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
New Species. Delimited from E. bislineata by Stuart et al. (2020, Herpetologica 76: 423–444).
(Pyron, R. Alexander, Christopher K. Beachy, David A. Beamer, and Kenneth M. Kozak. 2025. Caudata – Salamanders. Pages 10-21 in Kirsten E. Nicholson (Editor), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 9th Edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 pp.)
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Occurrences:;
135
Total;
73
Museum;
62
Other
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Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for its sandy habitat.
Eurycea — Rafinesque (1822) intentionally used a mythological-sounding name, but its specific Greek meaning or derivation was not disclosed. So, while modern etymologists may connect Eurycea to Eurydice or Greek roots (eurys “broad”), Rafinesque himself treated it as a classical name without defined origin.
arenicola — Latin arena = “sand” + -cola = “dweller”; “Sand-dweller”
First instance(s) of published English names:
Carolina Sandhills Salamander (Eurycea arenicola: Stuart, B. L., D. A. Beamer, D. A. Farrington, J. C. Beane, A. A. Chek, L. T. Pusser, H. E. Som, D. Stephan, D. M. Sever, and A. L. Braswell. 2020. A new Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata Complex) from the Sandhills of North Carolina. Herpetologica 76():423–444);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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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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2010
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Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letter 13:1378-1389
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2020
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Stuart, B. L., D. A. Beamer, D. A. Farrington, J. C. Beane, A. A. Chek, L. T. Pusser, H. E. Som, D. Stephan, D. M. Sever, and A. L. Braswell. A new Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata Complex) from the Sandhills of North Carolina. Herpetologica 76:423–444
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