Desmognathus santeetlah Tilley, 1981
Desmognathus santeetlah Tilley, 1981, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 695: 3. Holotype: USNM 214218, by original designation. Type locality: "from a seepage area at ca. 1219 m (4000′) in the headwaters of the N. Fork of Citico Cr. below Cherry Log Gap, Unicoi Mtns., Monroe County", Tennessee, USA.
Desmognathus fuscus santeetlah — Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 174.
English Names
Santeetlah Dusky Salamander (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: 17; 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: 26).
Distribution
Restricted to the Great Smoky, Great Balsam, and Unicoi mountains of southwestern Blue Ridge Physiographic Province (Tennessee and North Carolina, USA).
Comment
Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 174, rejected the distinctiveness of Desmognathus santeetlah from Desmognathus fuscus, on the basis of hybridization. See comment under Desmognathus conanti. See review by Tilley, 2000, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 703: 1-3.
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