Eurycea tridentifera Mitchell and Reddell, 1965
Eurycea tridentifera Mitchell and Reddell, 1965, Texas J. Sci., 17: 14. Holotype: USNM 153780, by original designation. Type locality: "waters of Honey Creek Cave, Comal County, Texas", USA.
Typhlomolge tridentifera — Wake, 1966, Mem. S. California Acad. Sci., 4: 64-66.
Eurycea (Paedomolge, Notiomolge, Blepsimolge) tridentifera — 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) tridentifera — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 179.
English Names
Honey Creek Cave Blind Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 295).
Comal Blind Salamander (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: 13; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 27).
Distribution
Southeastern margin of the Edwards Plateau in the region of the type locality in western Comal County, northern Bexar County, and southern Kendall County, Texas, USA.
Comment
See comment under Eurycea neotenes. Reviewed by Sweet, 1977, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 199: 1-2. See accounts by Chippindale, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 149-165, and Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 1-80. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 179-180, provided a brief account and map. See 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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