Eurycea longicauda (Green, 1818)
Salamandra longicauda Green, 1818, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1: 351. Type(s): Not known to exist according to Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 321. Type locality: "in the state of New-jersey", USA; rendered as "New Jersey (probably near Princeton)" by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 321; restricted by Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 53, to "vicinity of Princeton, New Jersey", USA.
Salamandra longicaudata — Harlan, 1835, Med. Phys. Res.: 96. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Cylindrosoma longicauda — Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 58.
Salamandra longe-caudata — Troost, 1840, Geol. Rep. Tennessee: 40.
Plethodon (Saurocercus) longicauda — Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 35.
Spelerpes longicauda — Baird, 1850 "1849", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 1: 287.
Cylindrosoma longicaudatum — Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854, Erp. Gen., 9: 78.
Spelerpes longicaudus — Cope, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 13: 124.
Saurocercus longicauda — Fitzinger, 1864, Bilder Altas Wissenschaftl. Naturgesch. Amph.: pl. 97, fig. 179.
Geotriton longicauda — Garman, 1884, Bull. Essex Inst., 16: 39.
Spelerpes melanopleurus Cope, 1894 "1893", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 45: 383. Syntypes: ANSP 10456-60, according to Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 21, and Malnate, 1971, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 123: 348. Type locality: "among the stone on the banks of Raley's Creek, one of the head tributaries of White River", Missouri, USA. Rendered as "Riley's Cr[eek]., a tributary of the White River, Mo." by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 316. Synonymy by Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 20.
Spelerpes stejnegeri Eigenmann, 1901, Trans. Am. Microscop. Soc., 22: 189. Holotype: USNM 61259, according to Brame, 1972, Checklist Living & Fossil Salamand. World (Unpubl. MS): 172; not listed in catalogue of USNM types by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220. Type locality: "Rock House cave, [Barry County,] Missouri", USA. Synonymy with Spelerpes melanopleurus by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 316.
Eurycea longicauda — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 19.
Eurycea melanopleura — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 17.
Eurycea longicauda longicauda — Bailey, 1937, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 364: 8.
Eurycea longicauda melanopleura — Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 20.
Eurycea longicauda pernix Mittleman, 1942, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 21: 101. Holotype: MCZ 25569, by original designation. Type locality: "Jimmie Strahl Creek (tributary of Salt Creek), Brown County State Park, two and five tenths miles southeast of Nashville, Brown County, Indiana", USA.
Eurycea (Eurycea) longicauda longicauda — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 187.
Eurycea (Eurycea) longicauda melanopleura — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 187.
English Names
Long-tailed Triton (Eurycea longicauda: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 22; Hay, 1892, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1891: 446).
Long-tailed Salamander (Eurycea longicauda: Green, 1818, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1: 351; Gray, 1831, in Cuvier, Animal Kingdom (Griffith), 9—Appendix: 107; De Kay, 1842, Zool. New York, 1: 76; Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 405; Fowler, 1907, Annu. Rep. N.J. State Mus. for 1906: 66; Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 151; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 53; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; 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; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 27).
Longtail Salamander (Eurycea longicauda: 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; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 12).
Long-tailed Salamander (Eurycea longicauda longicauda: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 421; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 53; 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: 291; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 18).
Eastern Long-tailed Salamander (Eurycea longicauda longicauda: Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 27).
Longtail Salamander (Eurycea longicauda: Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 6; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 23).
Longtail Salamander (Eurycea longicauda longicauda: Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 12).
Cave Salamander (Eurycea longicauda: Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 193; Davis and Rice, 1883, Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1: 27).
Cope's Cave Salamander (Eurycea longicauda melanopleura: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 428).
Black-sided Salamander (Eurycea longicauda melanopleura: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 54),
Dark-sided Salamander (Eurycea longicauda melanopleura: 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: 291; 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: 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).
Midland Long-tailed Salamander (Eurycea longicauda pernix: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 54; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174).
Distribution
Southern New York southwestward through the Appalachian and Ozark uplifts to southeastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, central Missouri, central and eastern Tennessee, northern Alabama, northwestern Georgia, extreme western North Carolina, western Virginia, and northern New Jersey, USA.
Comment
Reviewed by Ireland, 1979, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 221: 1-4 (as including Eurycea guttolineata). See Eurycea guttolineata. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 187, provided brief accounts by subspecies, photograph, and map.
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