Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Gyrinophilus subterraneus Besharse and Holsinger, 1977, Copeia, 1977: 626. Holotype: USNM 198533, by original designation. Type locality: "General Davis Cave, a few km NE Alderson, Greenbrier Co[unty]., West Virginia", USA.

Gyrinophilus subterraneus — Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 280.

English Names

West Virginia Spring Salamander (Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 7; 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

Known only from the General Davis Cave system, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA.

Comment

Considered an extreme variant of Gyrinophilus porphyriticus by Blaney and Blaney, 1978, Proc. W. Virginia Acad. Sci., 50: 23. See Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 280, for discussion of the controversy. Howard, Raesly, and Thompson, 1984, in McComb (ed.), Proc. Workshop Management Nongame Spec. Ecol. Comm.: 318-326, provided allozyme evidence for species distinctiveness. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 177, 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: 575.

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