Eurycea lucifuga Rafinesque, 1822
Eurycea lucifuga Rafinesque, 1822, Kentucky Gazette, Lexington, N.S.,, 1: 3. Type(s): Not designated or known to exist. Type locality: "near Lexington . . . . in caves and in the dark; but not in water", Fayette County, Kentucky, USA.
Spelerpes lucifuga — Rafinesque, 1832, Atlantic. J. and Friend of Knowledge, Philadelphia, 1: 22.
Gyrinophilus maculicaudus Cope, 1890, Am. Nat., 24: 967. Syntypes: ANSP 10579-81, according to Fowler and Dunn, 1917, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 69: 20. Hutchison, 1966, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 24: 1, stated "Holotype not known to exist". Type locality: "in a spring near . . . . Brookville, [Franklin County,] Indiana." Synonymy by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 338.
Spelerpes maculicaudus — Hay, 1891, Am. Nat., 25: 1134.
Spelerpes maculicauda — Blatchley, 1897, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1896: 125.
Eurycea lucifuga — Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 338.
Eurycea longicauda lucifuga — Mittleman, 1942, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 21: 105.
Eurycea lucifuga — Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 431.
Eurycea (Eurycea) lucifuga — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 182.
English Names
Spotted Tailed Triton (Spelerpes maculicaudus [no longer recognized]: Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 151).
Hoosier Salamander (Spelerpes maculicaudus [no longer recognized]: Hay, 1892, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1891: 447).
Spotted-tail Salamander (Eurycea lucifuga: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 431).
Cave Salamander (Spelerpes maculicauda [no longer recognized]: Blatchley, 1897, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1896: 125).
Cave Salamander (Eurycea lucifuga: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 431; 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; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 292; 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).
Distribution
Essentially limited to limestone areas, especially in and around limestone caves, in the Ozark uplife of northeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas, northern Arkansas and central and southern Missouri, southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southwestern Ohio through Kentucky and Tennessee to northeastern Mississippi, northern Alabama, and northwestern Georgia; extends along higher elevations of the Appalachians from eastern Tennessee almost to Maryland along the West Virginia-Virginia border, USA.
Comment
Reviewed by Hutchison, 1966, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 24: 1-2. Merkle and Guttman, 1977, Herpetologica, 33: 313-321, reported on geographic variation. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 189, provided a brief account, photograph, and map.
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