Eurycea troglodytes Baker, 1957
Eurycea troglodytes Baker, 1957, Texas J. Sci., 9: 328. Holotype: TNHC 21791, by original designation. Type locality: "a pool approximately 600 feet from the entrance of the Valdina Farms Sinkhole, Valdina Farms, Medina County, Texas", USA.
Eurycea (Paedomolge, Notiomolge, Blepsimolge) troglodytes — 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) troglodytes — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 180.
English Names
Valdina Farms Salamander (Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 251; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 294; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6; 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
Known definitely only from the type locality (Medina 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, 1984, Copeia, 1984: 438, who regarded the holotype as a hybrid. Chippindale, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders, and Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 1-80, noted that a number of other closely related populations found throughout the southeastern section of the Balcones Escarpment might be named as species in the future. Literature of Eurycea troglodytes reviewed by Baker, 1966, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 23: 1-2. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 180, provided a brief account, photograph, and map.
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