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

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

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Eurycea tonkawae Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 32. Holotype: TNHC 50952, by original designation. Type locality: "primary outflows of Stillhouse Hollow Springs, Travis Co., Texas, 30° 22′ 28″ N, 97° 45′ 55″ W."

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

English Names

Jollyville Plateau 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; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 13; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 27).

Distribution

Several localities in Williamson and Travis Counties, Texas, USA.

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: 574.

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