West Virginia Spring Salamander
Gyrinophilus subterraneus
Besharse and Holsinger, 1977
jer-in-OFF-eh-lus — sub-tur-rawn-EE-us
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Genome-scale phylogenetic and clustering analyses conducted by Campbell Grant et al. (2022, Conservation Genetics 23: 727–744) revealed hybridization between G. subterraneus and G. porphyriticus. Moreover, the former was found to be nested within the latter, which they interpreted as an instance of sympatric speciation where paraphyly is to be expected.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1966
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Brandon, Ronald A. Systematics of the salamander genus Gyrinophilus. Illinois Biological Monographs (35):1-86
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1967
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Brandon, Ronald A. Gyrinophilus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (31):1-2
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1977
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Besharse, Joseph C. and John R. Holsinger. Gyrinophilus subterraneus, a new troglobitic salamander from southern West Virginia. Copeia 1977(4):624-634
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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 Letters 13:1378-1389
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2022
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Campbell Grant, Evan H., Kevin P. Mulder, Adrianne B. Brand, Douglas B. Chambers, Addison H. Wynn, Grace Capshaw, Matthew L. Niemiller, John G. Phillips, Jeremy F. Jacobs, Shawn R. Kuchta, and Rayna C. Bell Speciation with gene flow in a narrow endemic West Virginia cave salamander (Gyrinophilus subterraneus). Conservation Genetics 23(2022):727–744
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