Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Desmognathus fuscus conanti Rossman, 1958, Herpetologica, 14: 158. Holotype: AMNH 62223, by original designation. Type locality: "400 feet el[evation]., near U.S. Highway 60, 2.1 mi. S. Smithland, Livingston Co[unty]., K[entuck]y", USA.

Desmognathus conanti — Titus and Larson, 1996, Syst. Biol., 45: 451-472.

English Names

Spotted Dusky Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 262; 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: 21; 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

Southeastern USA from Louisiana and southern Arkansas north (east to southern Illinois, southwestern Kentucky, Tennessee, and northwestern South Carolina and east to the panhandle of Florida, and northern Georgia.

Comment

Karlin and Guttman, 1986, Herpetologica, 42: 283-301, reported on genic variation in Desmognathus fuscus (as including Desmognathus fuscus conanti) and noted that northern (Desmognathus fuscus fuscus) and southern (Desmognathus fuscus conanti) populations may not represent a single species. Titus and Larson, 1996, Syst. Biol., 45: 451-472, subsequently recognized Desmognathus conanti as distinct. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 176, continued to recognized Desmoganthus conanti as a subspecies of Desmognathus fuscus, suggesting that the zones of contact have not been studied sufficiently. Bonett, 2002, Copeia, 2002: 344-355, studied the contact zone in Tennessee of Desmognathus conanti and Desmognathus fuscus and confirmed the distinctiveness of these species and further noted that Desmognathus conanti might be a composite of two species, one in northeastern Alabama to South Carolina and the other in western Kentucky to northern Alabama and southwest-central Mississippi. Graham, Timpe, and Giovanetto, 2008, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 494-495, provided a record for Marion County, Georgia, USA, the southernmost record in that state. Beamer and Lamb, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 143-153, reported on phylogenetics of Desmognathus on the Gulf Coastal Plain and redelimited the species and its range.

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