Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Desmognathus fuscus imitator Dunn, 1927, Copeia, 164: 84. Holotype: USNM 72762, by original designation. Type locality: "Indian Pass, Great Smoky Mts., N[orth]. C[arolina].", USA.

Desmognathus aureatagulus Weller, 1930, Proc. Junior Soc. Nat. Hist. Cincinnati, 1: 3rd page (not numbered). Syntypes: Including USNM 93686 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 11. Type locality: "trail between Newfound Gap and Indian Pass, 4400 to 5000 feet", Great Smoky Mountain National Park, Mount LeConte, Sevier County, Tennessee, USA. Synonymy by Weller, 1931, Proc. Junior Soc. Nat. Hist. Cincinnati, 2: 8.

Desmognathus imitator — Tilley, Merritt, Wu, and Highton, 1978, Evolution, 32: 100.

English Names

Imitator Salamander (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: 12; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25).

Distribution

Throughout the Great Smoky Mountains at all elevations, eastern North Carolina and western Tennessee, USA.

Comment

Reviewed by Tilley, 1985, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 359: 1-2. Verrell and Tilley, 1992, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 104: 67-80, suggested that nominal Desmognathus imitator might contain more than one species. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 182, noted that a population in the Balsam Mountains might constitute a distinct species. Tilley, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 121-147, discussed allozymic variation within this nominal species.

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