Plethodon ainsworthi
Lazell, 1998
pleth-OH-don — anes-WURTH-ai
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
Folt et al. (2013, Herpetological Review 44: 283–286), Himes and Beckett (2013, Southeastern Naturalist 12: 851–856) and Pierson et al. (2020, Journal of Herpetology 54: 137–143) evaluated the scant available data regarding this taxon. We follow the latter in continuing to recognize it as valid and possibly extinct, but no compelling evidence supports this conclusion, and it is likely a nomen dubium.
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First instance(s) of published English names:
Catahoula Salamander (Plethodon ainsworthi: Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Jonathan A. Campbell, Kevin de Queiroz, Darrell R. Frost, Richard Highton, Peter A. Meylan, Todd W. Reeder, Mark E. Seidel, Jack W. Sites, Jr., Travis W. Taggart, Stephen G. Tilley, and David B. Wake. 2000. Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North American north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding. Herpetological Circulars (29):82); Bay Springs Salamander (Plethodon ainsworthi: Lazell, James D., Jr. 2005. Plethodon ainsworthi. Pages 787–788 in Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Species. University of California Press, Berkeley. pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1956
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Highton, Richard. The relationships of the salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Dissertation. University of Florida, Gainesville. 224pp.
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1962
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Highton, Richard. Revision of North American salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 6(3):235-267
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1979
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Highton, Richard and A. Larson. The genetic relationships of salamanders of the genus Plethodon. Systematic Zoology 28(4):579-599
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1979
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Maxson, Linda R., Richard Highton, and David B. Wake. Albumin evolution and its phylogenetic implications in the plethodontid salamander genera Plethodon and Ensatina. Copeia 1979(3):502-508
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1991
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Highton, Richard H. Molecular phylogeny of Plethodonine salamanders and Hylid frogs: Statistical analysis of protein comparisons. Molecular Biology and Evolution 8(6):796-818
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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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1998
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Lazell, James D., Jr. New salamander of the genus Plethodon from Mississippi. Copeia 1998(4):967-970
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2006
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Kozak, Kenneth H., David W. Weisrock, and Allan Larson. Rapid lineage accumulation in a non-adaptive radiation: Phylogenetic analysis of diversification rates in eastern North American woodland salamanders (Plethodontidae: Plethodon). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2006(273):539-546
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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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2013
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Himes, John G. and David C. Beckett The Status of Plethodon ainsworthi Lazell: Extinct, extant, or nonexistent? Southeastern Naturalist 12(4):851-856
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2013
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Folt, Brian, Todd Pierson, Jeffrey Goessling, Scott M. Goetz, David Laurencio, Daniel Thompson, and Sean P. Graham. Amphibians and reptiles of Jasper County, Mississippi, with
comments on the potentially extinct Bay Springs Salamander
(Plethodon ainsworthi) Herpetological Review 44(2):283-286
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2020
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Pierson, Todd W., Troy J. Kieran, Adam G. Clause, and Nikole L. Castleberry Preservation-induced morphological change in salamanders and failed DNA extraction from a decades-old museum specimen: Implications for Plethodon ainsworthi. Journal of Herpetology 54(2):137–143
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