Eurycea latitans Smith and Potter, 1946
Eurycea latitans Smith and Potter, 1946, Herpetologica, 3: 106. Holotype: USNM 123594, by original designation. Type locality: "the first large pool deep within the recesses of Cascade Cavern, 4.6 miles by road (3 1/2 miles airline) southeast of Boerne, Kendall County, Texas", USA.
Eurycea neotenes latitans — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 55.
Eurycea latitans — Blair, 1957, in Blair et al. (eds.), Vert. U.S.: 240. Mitchell and Reddell, 1965, Texas J. Sci., 17: 12-27.
Eurycea (Paedomolge, Notiomolge, Blepsimolge) latitans — Hillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 275. Invalid name formulation under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (1999) as discussed by Dubois, 2007, Cladistics, 23: 395.
Eurycea (Blepsimolge) latitans — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 178.
English Names
Cascade Caverns Neotenic Salamander (Eurycea neotenes latitans: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 54).
Cascade Cavern Salamander (Eurycea neotenes latitans: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 294; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6).
Cascade Caverns Salamander (Eurycea latitans: 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: 18; 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
Known definitely only from the type locality (Cascade Cavern, near Boerne, Kendall County, Texas, USA) (see comment).
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Eurycea neotenes by Chippindale, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 161, where it had been placed by Sweet, 1984, Copeia, 1984: 438 (who regarded the holotype as a hybrid). Chippindale (and Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 1-80) noted a number of likely undescribed species (as the Eurycea latitans complex) related to this form found throughout the southeastern region of the Balcones Escarpment in Texas, USA. Literature of Eurycea latitans reviewed by Brown, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 34: 1-2. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 179, 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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