Eurycea Rafinesque, 1822

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Eurycea

Eurycea Rafinesque, 1822, Kentucky Gazette, Lexington, N.S.,, 1: 3. Type species: Eurycea lucifuga Rafinesque, 1822, by monotypy.

Spelerpes Rafinesque, 1832, Atlantic. J. and Friend of Knowledge, Philadelphia, 1: 22. Type species: Eurycea lucifuga Rafinesque, 1822, by monotypy. Synonymy by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 294.

Cylindrosoma Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 58. Type species: Salamandra longicauda Green, 1818, by monotypy. Synonymy with Spelerpes by Baird, 1850 "1849", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 1: 287, with Eurycea by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 294.

Saurocercus Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 34. Substitute name for Cylindrosoma Tschudi, 1838.

Manculus Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 95, 101. Type species: Salamandra quadridigitata Holbrook, 1842, by monotypy. Synonymy by Dunn, 1923, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 8: 40; Wake, 1966, Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., 4: 64.

Typhlotriton Stejneger, 1892, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 15: 115. Type species: Typhlotriton spelaeus Stejneger, 1892, by original designation. Synonymy by Bonett and Chippindale, 2004, Mol. Ecol., 13: 1199.

Typhlomolge Stejneger, 1896, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 18: 620. Type species: Typhlomolge rathbuni Stejneger, 1896, by original designation. Synonymy by Mitchell and Reddell, 1965, Texas J. Sci., 17: 23; Mitchell and Smith, 1972, Texas J. Sci., 23: 343; Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 273; and Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 1.

Haideotriton Carr, 1939, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 334. Type species: Haideotriton wallacei Carr, 1939, by original designation. Synonymy by Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 20; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 359. Taxonomy presented by Vieites, Min, and Wake, 2007, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104: 19903-19907 (supplemental data), implies that Haideotriton is a synonym.

Paedomolge Hillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 277. Type species: Eurycea tonkawae Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus ("section") of Eurycea.

Septentriomolge Hillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 277. Type species: Eurycea chisholmensis Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Eurycea and a subtaxon of Paedomolge. Invalidly treated as a subgeneric name under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) (and presumably therefore unavailable) according to Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 395.

Notiomolge Hillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 277. Type species: Eurycea neotenes Bishop and Wright, 1937, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus ("division") of Eurycea and subtaxon of Paedomolge. Invalidly treated as a subgeneric name under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) (and presumably therefore unavailable) according to Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 395.

Blepsimolge Hillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 277. Type species: Eurycea nana Bishop, 1941, by original designation. Coined as a subgenus of Eurycea and subtaxon of Notiomolge. Invalidly treated as a subgeneric name under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) (and presumably therefore unavailable) according to Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 395.

English Names

Brook Salamanders (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 22; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 17; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 27).

American Brook Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31).

Georgia Blind Salamanders (Haideotriton [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 7; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 24; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 19; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 28).

Blind Salamanders (Haideotriton [no longer recognized]: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7).

Distribution

Eastern North America (USA and southeastern Canada).

Comment

See species accounts by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 241-279 (and page 307-309 as Typhlotriton). Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 1-80, reviewed the systematics of the central Texas populations. In the tribe Spelerpini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583, in their study of Genbank sequences, found in their optimal tree that Eurycea is paraphyletic with respect to Haideotriton, but explicity retained both genera. Powell, Collins, and Hooper, 2011, Key Herpetofauna U.S. & Canada, 2nd Ed.: 23-26, provided a key to the species, including former Haideotriton. Lamb and Beamer, 2012, PLoS One, 7: e37544 (1-8), reported on cryptic species within nominal Eurycea quadridigitata complex, suggesting that the Edwards Plateau complex of neotenic species render nominal Eurycea quadridigitata paraphyletic.

Contained taxa

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