Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Desmognathus brimleyorum Stejneger, 1895, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 17: 597. Holotype: USNM 22157, according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 11. Type locality: "Hot Springs, [Garland County,] Ark[ansas].", USA.

Desmognathus fuscus brimleyorum — Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 101.

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

English Names

Brimley's Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 196).

Brimley's Dusky Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 29).

Central Dusk Salamander (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 219).

Ouachita Dusky Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 264; 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).

Distribution

Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, USA.

Comment

See Karlin, Guttman, and Means, 1993, Southwest. Nat., 38: 36-42, for geographic variation in allozymes among populations on either side of the Mena Valley, and Valentine, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 130-139, for discussion of confusion in the application of the name. Reviewed by Means, 1999, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 682: 1-4.

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