Eurycea nana Bishop, 1941
Eurycea nana Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 6. Holotype: UMMZ 89759, by original designation. Type locality: "Lake at the head of the San Marcos River, at San Marcos, Hays County, Texas", USA.
Eurycea neotenes nana — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 55.
Eurycea nana — Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 251.
Eurycea (Paedomolge, Notiomolge, Blepsimolge) nana — 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) nana — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 178.
English Names
Dwarf Eurycea (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 439).
San Marcos Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 55; 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: 293; 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
Known only from the type locality (pool at the source of the San Marcos River, San Marcos, Hays County, Texas, USA).
Comment
Reviewed by Brown, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 35: 1-2. Validity supported by Chippindale, Price, and Hillis, 1998, Copeia, 1998: 1046-1049. See account in Chippindale, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 149-178. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 178-179, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See photograph, 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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