Necturus punctatus
(Gibbes, 1850)
nek-TUR-uss — punk-TAW-tus
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Gibbes's Proteus (Necturus punctatus: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Water Dog (Necturus maculatus: Brimley, Clement S. 1896. Batrachia found at Raleigh, N. C. The American Naturalist 30():500-501); Southern Water Dog (Necturus punctatus: Brimley, Clement S. 1915. List of reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 30(4):195-206); Mobile Waterdog (Necturus lodingi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Dwarf Waterdog (Necturus punctatus: 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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1850
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Gibbes, L. R. On a new species of Menobranchus (punctatus) from South Carolina. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 1850:159
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1918
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Dunn, Emmett R.. The collection of amphibia of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62:445-471
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1985
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Sessions, Stanley K. and John E. Wiley. Chromosome evolution in salamanders of the genus Necturus. Brimleyana (10):37-52
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1988
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Maxson, Linda R., Paul E. Moler, B. W. Mansell, and L. R. Maxson. Albumin Evolution in Salamanders of the Genus Necturus. Journal of Herpetology 22(2):231-235
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1998
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Dundee, Harold A. Nectrurus punctatus Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (663):1-5
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