Desmognathus folkertsi Camp, Tilley, Austin, and Marshall, 2002
Desmognathus folkertsi Camp, Tilley, Austin, and Marshall, 2002, Herpetologica, 58: 477. Holotype: USNM 536397, by original designation. Type locality: "south of Wolf Creek Road (34° 46′ 05″ N latitude; 83° 56′ 37″ W longitude) on an upper tributary of the West Fork of Wolf Creek at an elevation of 834 m, Union County, Georgia", USA.
English Names
Dwarf Black-bellied Salamander (Camp, Marshall, Landau, Austin, and Tilley, 2000, Copeia, 2000: 477; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 16; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25).
Dwarf Black-belly Salamander (Camp, 2004, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 782: 1).
Dwarf Blackbelly Salamander (Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11).
Distribution
Tributaries of the West Fork of Wolf Creek and Helton Creek, both in Union County, Georgia, as well in adjacent Clay County, North Carolina, USA.
Comment
Most similar to Desmognathus quadramaculatus according to the original publication. See account by Camp, 2004, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 782: 1-3. First record for North Carolina by Rothermel, Jensen, Camp, and Schwaner, 2007, Herpetol. Rev., 38: 213. Wooten, Camp, and Rissler, 2010, Conserv. Genetics, 11: 835-854, reported on genetic variation across the range of the species.
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