Eurycea pterophila Burger, Smith, and Potter, 1950
Eurycea pterophila Burger, Smith, and Potter, 1950, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 63: 51. Holotype: FPC A993, by original designation; current location not known. Type locality: "The shallow stream flowing from Fern Bank Spring, 6.3 miles northeast of Wimberley on the Blanco River road, Hays County, Texas." Synonymy by Sweet, 1978, Herpetologica, 34: 101-107.
Eurycea neotenes pterophila — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 56.
Eurycea (Paedomolge, Notiomolge, Blepsimolge) pterophila — 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) pterophila — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 180.
English Names
Fern Bank Neotenic Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 54).
Fern Bank Salamander (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; 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
Springs and caves of the Blanco River drainage in Hays County, Texas, USA.
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, 1978, Herpetologica, 34: 101-107. See also account by Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 1-80. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 180-181, provided a brief account and map.
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