Desmognathus carolinensis Dunn, 1916
Desmognathus ochrophaea carolinensis Dunn, 1916, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 29: 74. Holotype: USNM 31135, by original designation. Type locality: "spring near top of Mt. Mitchell, [Buncombe County,] North Carolina, altitude 'over 6500 feet'", USA.
Desmognathus fuscus carolinensis — Pope, 1924, Am. Mus. Novit., 153: 4.
Desmognathus carolinensis — Brimley, 1928, Copeia, 166: 21-23. Tilley and Mahoney, 1996, Herpetol. Monogr., 10: 1-42.
Desmognathus ochrophaeus carolinensis — Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 203.
English Names
Carolina Mountain Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 203).
Blue Ridge Mountain Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 30; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174).
Carolina Dusky Salamander (Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 6; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11).
Carolina Mountain Dusky Salamander (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
Southwestern Blue Ridge region from between Linville Falls and McKinney Gap (Burke and McDowell counties, North Carolina) on the Blue Ridge Divide and Iron Mountain Gap on the North Carolina-Tennessee boundary (Mitchell-Unicoi counties, North Carolina-Tennessee) to the valley of the Pigeon River (Hayweood and Buncombe counties, North Carolina), USA.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Desmognathus ochrophaeus by Tilley and Mahoney, 1996, Herpetol. Monogr., 10: 1-42. Tilley, 1997, J. Heredity, 88: 305-315, noted that strong genetic differentiation over short distances. Mead and Tilley, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 181-198, reported on a hybrid zone between Desmognathus carolinensis and Desmognathus orestes. Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 231, suggested that two species might be covered under this one name.
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