Northern Grotto Salamander
Eurycea nerea
(Bishop, 1944)
yoo-ree-SEE-uh — ner-EE-uh
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Elevated from the synonymy of E. spelaea by Phillips et al. (2017, Journal of Biogeography 44: 2463–2474) based on phylogenetic and clustering analysis of genome-scale data and population-level sampling from across the range of the nominal taxon. Standard English name "Northern Grotto Salamander" used by Raffaëlli (2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World. Plumelec, France).
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Veil-eyed Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Blind Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: Hurter, Julius. 1911. Herpetology of Missouri. Transactions of the Academy of Science St. Louis 20(5):59-274); Ozarks Blind Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: Smith, Hobart M. 1934. The Amphibians of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 15(4):377-527); Spring Blind Salamander (Typhlotriton nereus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Spring Grotto Salamander (Typhlotriton nereus: 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); Grotto Salamander (Typhlotriton spelaeus: 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); Northern Grotto Salamander (Eurycea nerea: Raffaelli, J. 2022. Salamanders & Newts of the World. Plumelec, France: Penclen Édition.. pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1939
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Blair, Albert P. Records of the salamander Typhlotriton. Copeia 1939(2):108-109
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1944
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Bishop, Sherman C. A new neotenic plethodont salamander, with notes on related species. Copeia 1944(1):1-5
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1965
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Brandon, Ronald A. Typhlotriton, T. nereus, T. spealaeus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (20):1-2
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1970
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Brandon, Ronald A. Typhlotriton, T. spelaeus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (84):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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2004
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Bonett, Ronald M. and Paul T. Chippindale. Speciation, phylogeography and evolution of life history and morphology in plethodontid salamanders of the Eurycea multiplicata complex. Molecular Ecology 13(5):1189-1203
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2009
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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
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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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2017
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Phillips, John G., Dante B. Fenolio, Sarah L. Emel, and Ronald M. Bonett. Hydrologic and geologic history of the Ozark Plateau drive phylogenomic patterns in a cave-obligate salamander. Journal of Biogeography 44:2463–2474
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2022
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Raffaelli, J. Salamanders & Newts of the World. Plumelec, France: Penclen Édition.. pp.
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