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Eurycea naufragia Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Eurycea

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Eurycea naufragia Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 37. Holotype: TNHC 58860, by original designation. Type locality: "headsprings of Buford Hollow, a small tributary of the South San Gabriel River below Lake Georgetown, 30° 39′ 39″ N, 97° 43′ 36″ W.", Williamson County, Texas, USA.

Eurycea (Paedomolge, Septentriomolge) naufragia — 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 (Septentriomolge) naufragia — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 182.

English Names

Georgetown Salamander (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).

San Gabriel Springs Salamander (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 573; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 12).

Distribution

Known only from springs in Williamson County, Texas, USA, associated with the drainage of the south, middle and north forks of the San Gabriel River.

Comment

Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 182, 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: 573.

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