Eurycea junaluska Sever, Dundee, and Sullivan, 1976
Eurycea junaluska Sever, Dundee, and Sullivan, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 26. Holotype: USNM 198421, by original designation. Type locality: "U.S. Route 129, 3. 2-11. 2 km SE Tapoco, Graham County, North Carolina", USA.
Eurycea (Eurycea) junaluska — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 186.
English Names
Junaluska Salamander (Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; 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: 23; 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
Disjunct populations in Tennessee and North Carolina, USA: Unicoi Mountains in the west, Snowbird Mountains in the south, Cheoah Mountains to the east and the Great Smoky Mountains in the north.
Comment
Reviewed by Sever, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 321: 1-2. Jacobs, 1987, Herpetologica, 43: 423-446, discussed phylogenetic relationships. Ryan, 1997, Copeia, 1997: 210-215, discussed larvae and distribution. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 186, provided a brief account and map. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 572.
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- To search the NIH genetic sequence database, see GenBank
- For information aggregation from other sites and some original accounts see AmphibiaWeb report
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