Eurycea chamberlaini Harrison and Guttman, 2003
Eurycea chamberlaini Harrison and Guttman, 2003, Southeast. Nat., 2: 163. Holotype: USNM 547846, by original designation. Type locality: "Sesquicentennial State Park, Richland County, South Carolina", USA.
Eurycea (Eurycea) chamberlaini — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 189.
English Names
Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander (original publication; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 17; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 12; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 27).
Distribution
Piedmont in both North and South Carolina through central Georgia (Crawford County) to southern Alabama (Clarke County); the upper Coastal Plain in South Carolina, and portions of the central coastal plain in North Carolina, USA.
Comment
Largely parapatric with Eurycea quadridigitata, it's presumptively closest relative, with which it had previously been confused. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 189, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Graham, Timpe, and Giovanetto, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 494-495, provided the Crawford County, Georgia, USA record. Graham, Sorrel, Birkhead, Hoss, and Raymond, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 39: 476, provided the first records for Alabama, discussed the range, as well as confusions with Eurycea quadridigitata. Graham and Birkhead, 2010, Herpetol. Rev., 41: 240, provided a number of range extensions in Georgia and discussed the range. Graham and Jensen, 2011, Herpetol. Rev., 42: 383, noted that this species likely has been confused with Eurycea quadridigitata. Thawley and Graham, 2012, Herpetol. Rev., 43: 297, provided a range extension to Covington County, Alabama, USA, and suggested that records of Eurycea quadridigitata previously reported from this county are referrable to this species.
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