Desmognathus Baird, 1850
Desmognathus Baird, 1850 "1849", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 1: 282. Type species: Triturus fuscus Rafinesque, 1820, by the subsequent designation of Brown, 1908, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 60: 126. Placed on the Official List of Generic Names by Opinion 92, Anonymous, 1926, Smithson. Misc. Collect., 73: 3.
Leurognathus Moore, 1899, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 51: 316. Type species: Leurognathus marmorata Moore, 1899, by monotypy. Synonymy by Bernardo, 1994, Am. Nat., 143: 15; Titus and Larson, 1996, Syst. Biol., 45: 451-472.
English Names
Dusky Salamanders (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 192; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 5; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 6; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 20; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 16; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25).
Distribution
Eastern USA and southeastern Canada, west to eastern Oklahoma and Texas.
Comment
See accounts for all species in Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 159-216. Anderson and Tilley, 2003, Herpetol. Monogr., 17: 75-110, discussed the systematics of the Desmognathus ochrophaeus complex in central Tennessee. Macey, 2005, Cladistics, 21: 194-202, considered Desmognathus to be the sister taxon of Phaeognathus. Beamer and Lamb, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 143-153, reported on the molecular phylonetics of the coastal plains group and cryptic species diversity. In the tribe Desmognathini of Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 633. Powell, Collins, and Hooper, 2011, Key Herpetofauna U.S. & Canada, 2nd Ed.: 20-23, provided a key to the species.
Contained taxa
- Desmognathus abditus Anderson and Tilley, 2003
- Desmognathus aeneus Brown and Bishop, 1947
- Desmognathus apalachicolae Means and Karlin, 1989
- Desmognathus auriculatus (Holbrook, 1838)
- Desmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger, 1895
- Desmognathus carolinensis Dunn, 1916
- Desmognathus conanti Rossman, 1958
- Desmognathus folkertsi Camp, Tilley, Austin, and Marshall, 2002
- Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)
- Desmognathus imitator Dunn, 1927
- Desmognathus marmoratus (Moore, 1899)
- Desmognathus monticola Dunn, 1916
- Desmognathus ochrophaeus Cope, 1859
- Desmognathus ocoee Nicholls, 1949
- Desmognathus orestes Tilley and Mahoney, 1996
- Desmognathus organi Crespi, Browne, and Rissler, 2010
- Desmognathus planiceps Newman, 1955
- Desmognathus quadramaculatus (Holbrook, 1840)
- Desmognathus santeetlah Tilley, 1981
- Desmognathus welteri Barbour, 1950
- Desmognathus wrighti King, 1936
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