Desmognathus ochrophaeus Cope, 1859
Desmognathus ochrophaea Cope, 1859, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 11: 124. Type(s): Formerly ANSP, listed by Dunn, 1917, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 53: 415, as destroyed. Type locality: "Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania", USA.
Plethodon ochrophaeus — Smith, 1877, Tailed Amph.: 71.
Desmognathus ochrophaeus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 77.
Desmognathus ochrophaea ochrophaea — Dunn, 1917, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 53: 415.
Desmognathus ochrophaeus ochrophaeus — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 22.
Desmognathus fuscus ochrophaeus — Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 114.
Desmognathus ochrophaeus ochrophaeus — Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 199.
English Names
Triton (Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 22).
Yellow Desmognath (Jordan, 1878, Man. Vert. North. U.S., Ed. 2: 192).
Gray Salamander (Rhoads, 1895, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 47: 400).
Yellow Salamander (Brimley, 1907, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 23: 154).
Allegheny Mountains Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 199).
Allegheny 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).
Mountain Dusky Salamander (; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 266; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 5; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31).
Allegheny 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: 12).
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander (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; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25).
Distribution
Brumley, Clinch, Walker, and Potts mountains of southwestern Virginia, USA; the Cumberland Mountains and Plateau of southeastern Kentucky, USA; the Allegheny Mountains and Plateau of West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York, USA, through the Adirondack Mountains to southern Quebec, Canada.
Comment
Reviewed by Tilley, 1973, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 129: 1-4 (before recognition of Desmognathus carolinensis, Desmognathus orestes, or Desmognathus ocoee). Lazell, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 7: 122, provided a record for Vermont. Tilley and Mahoney, 1996, Herpetol. Monogr., 10: 25, noted that populations associated with this nominal species from Tennessee might represent a distinct species. Tilley, 1997, J. Heredity, 88: 305-315, discussed the small amount of genetic differentiation in this species. Populations from the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee were recently transferred to Desmognathus abditus by Anderson and Tilley, 2003, Herpetol. Monogr., 17: 75-110.
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