Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon fourchensis Duncan and Highton, 1979, Copeia, 1979: 109. Holotype: USNM 204835, by original designation. Type locality: "1.5 km west, 0.3 km south of the top of Wolf Pinnacle Mountain, Polk County, Arkansas", USA.

Plethodon (Plethodon) fourchensis — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632. By implication.

English Names

Fourche Mountain Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 8; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 26; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 20; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 29).

Distribution

Higher elevantions of Fourche Mountain and Irons Fork Mountain, Polk and Scott counties, Arkansas, USA, 503-730 m elevation.

Comment

In the Plethodon glutinosus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Highton, 1986, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 391. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 387, considered Plethodon fourchensis to be a synonym of Plethodon ouachitae on the basis of a broad hybrid zone. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 583. Shepard and Burbrink, 2009, Mol. Ecol., 18: 2243-2262, reported on molecular phylogeography. Shepard, Irwin, and Burbrink, 2011, Herpetologica, 67: 355-368, reported on morphological diversification on the landscape.

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