Desmognathus planiceps Newman, 1955
Desmognathus planiceps Newman, 1955, J. Washington Acad. Sci., 45: 83. Holotype: WBN 1316 (to be deposited in USNM), by original designation. Type locality: "from a portion of the stream (approximate elevation 2800 feet) dropping down into the gorge below the Dan River Dam near Meadows of Dan. Patrick County, V[irgini]a.", USA. Synonymy by
English Names
Flat-headed Salamander (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 219; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 26).
Distribution
Streams draining the southeastern escarpment of the Blue Ridge Mountains from southern Roanoke County, Virginia, southward to at least the headwaters of the Dan River, Patrick County, and eastward in the Piedmont to at least Pittsylvania County; specimens referrable to this species are also known from a locality in the interior Blue Ridge Physiographic Province (New River drainage, Floyd County), Virginia, USA, possibly into adjacent North Carolina.
Comment
Removed from the synonymy of Desmognathus fuscus by Tilley, Eriksen, and Katz, 2008, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 152: 115-130, where it had been placed by Martof and Rose, 1962, Copeia, 1962: 215-216.
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