Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Desmognathus fuscus welteri Barbour, 1950, Copeia, 1950: 277. Holotype: USNM 129312, by original designation. Type locality: "at an elevation of 2300 feet above sea level, at Looney Creek, near Lynch, Harlan County, Kentucky", USA.

Desmognathus welteri — Rubenstein, 1971, Am. Midl. Nat., 85: 329.

English Names

Black Mountain Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 29; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; 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).

Black Mountain Dusky Salamander (Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 264).

Distribution

Extreme eastern Kentucky and adjacent Virginia, southwest to east-central Tennessee, USA; possibly into extreme southern West Virginia.

Comment

See account by Juterbock, 1984, J. Herpetol., 18: 240-255.

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