Eurycea wallacei (Carr, 1939)
Haideotriton wallacei Carr, 1939, Occas. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 335. Holotype: MCZ 19875, by original designation. Type locality: "from a 200-ft. artesian well at Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia", USA. Synonymy by
Eurycea wallacei — Dubois, 2005, Alytes, 23: 20. by implication; Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 359.
Eurycea (Eurycea) wallacei — Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 182.
English Names
Georgia Blind Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 355; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 44; 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: 296; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 7; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 24; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 19; 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: 28).
Distribution
Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, and a cave in Decatur County, Georgia; and several caves north of Marianna, Jackson County, Florida, USA.
Comment
Reviewed by Brandon, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 39: 1-2 (as Haideotriton wallacei). See account (as Haideotriton wallacei) by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 289-290. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 182-183, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status (as Haideotriton wallacei) in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 575.
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