Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Salamandra auriculata Holbrook, 1838, N. Am. Herpetol., 3: 115. Type(s): Animal figured on pl. 28; listed by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 98, as USNM 3901, but not mentioned in USNM list of types by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220, and discounted by Adler, 1976, Holbrook’s N. Am. Herpetol.: xxxviii. Specimens of this taxon presented to ANSP by Holbrook according to Hallowell, 1858, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 3: 344. Type locality: "Riceborough, [Liberty County,] in Georgia", USA.

Desmognathus auriculatus — Baird, 1850 "1849", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 1: 286.

Cylindrosoma auriculatum — Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854, Erp. Gen., 9: 81.

Plethodon auriculatum — Hallowell, 1858, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 3: 344.

Desmognathus fuscus var. auriculata — Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 116.

Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 78.

Desmognathus auriculata — Lönnberg, 1894, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 17: 337.

Desmognathus fuscus carri Neill, 1951, Publ. Res. Div. Ross Allen’s Rept. Inst., 1: 25. Holotype: ERA-WTN 14188, by original designation; now in FSM. Type locality: "Silver Glen Springs, in the Ocala National Forest, Marion County, Florida", USA. Subspecies status as distinct from Desmognathus auriculatus rejected by Rossman, 1959, Herpetologica, 15: 149-155, and Means, 1974, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 18: 36.

Desmognathus auriculatus — Valentine, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 130.

English Names

Eared Triton (Desmognathus auriculatus: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 22).

Eared Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus: Löding, 1922, Mus. Pap. Alabama Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 15).

Southern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 193; 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: 263; 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; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25).

Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus: Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 9).

Southeastern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 51).

Coast Plain Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 29).

Ocala Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus carri [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 29).

Peninsula Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus carri [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174).

Distribution

Restricted to the Coastal Plain of Georgia and adjacent northern Florida, possibly into southeastern Alabama, USA (see comment).

Comment

Reviewed by Means, 1999, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 681: 1-6. Beamer and Lamb, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 143-153, discussed the status of populations of this nominal species and suggested that specimens from eastern Texas previously assigned to this species are actually Desmognathus conanti. Further, they suggested that the population from which the type-specimen is restricted to the area of the Coastal Plain of Georgia and that populations, other populations formerly assigned to Desmognathus "auriculatus" being parts of nominal Desmognathus fuscus, Desmognathus conanti, or possibly unnamed species.

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