Caddo Mountain Salamander
Plethodon caddoensis
Pope and Pope, 1951
pleth-OH-don — kad-doe-EN-sis
SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Arkansas
First instance(s) of published English names:
Caddo Mountain Salamander (Plethodon caddoensis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1951
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Pope, Clifford H. and S. H. Pope. A study of the salamander Plethodon ouachitae and a description of an allied form. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences 9(8):129-152
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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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1957
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Blair, Albert P. A comparison of living Plethodon ouachitae and Plethodon caddoensis. Copeia 1957(1):47-48
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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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1964
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Pope, Clifford H. Plethodon caddoensis. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (14):1-1
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1965
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Blair, Albert P. and Hague L. Lindsay, Jr. Color pattern variation and distribution of two large Plethodon salamanders endemic to the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Copeia 1965(3):331-335
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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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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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2011
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Fisher-Reid, M. Caitlin and John J. Wiens. What are the consequences of combining nuclear and mitochondrial data for phylogenetic analysis? Lessons from Plethodon salamanders and 13 other vertebrate clades. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:1-20
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