Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Gyrinophilus palleucus McCrady, 1954, Copeia, 1954: 201. Holotype: FMNH 72585, by original designation. Type locality: "Sinking Cove Cave (altitude 900 feet) in a hardwood climax forest at the north end of Sinking Cove, Franklin County, Tennessee, 5 miles west of Sherwood across Burned Stand Ridge, and 15 miles southwest of Sewanee", USA.

Pseudotriton palleucus — Blair, 1961, Copeia, 1961: 499.

Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus — Lazell and Brandon, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 300.

Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides Lazell and Brandon, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 301. Holotype: MCZ 34100, by original designation. Type locality: "Big Mouth Cave, near Pelham, Grundy Co[unty]., Tennessee", USA.

English Names

Tennessee Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus pallecus: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6; 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: 24; 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).

Tennessee Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174).

Pale Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus: 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: 24; 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).

Sinking Cove Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus: Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 285).

Big Mouth Cave Salamander (Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides: Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 285; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6; 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: 24; 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

Southern Cumberland Plateau of southern central Tennessee and northern Alabama, in the Nashville Basin southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, northeastern Alabama, and northwestern Georgia, USA.

Comment

See account by Brandon, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 32: 1-2. See comment under Gyrinophilus gulolineatus. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 177-178, provided brief accounts by subspecies, 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: 575. Buhlmann and Wynn, 1996, Herpetol. Rev., 27: 147-148, provided the second record for Georgia and discussed the range in that state. Miller and Niemiller, 2012, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 884: 1-7, provided a detailed account.

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