Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Plethodon ocmulgee Highton In Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 60. Holotype: USNM 257426, by original designation. Type locality: "locality 32 [32° 05′ 38″ N, 82° 53′ 35″ W] . . ., Little Ocmulgee State Park, at an elevation of 49 m, Wheeler County, Georgia", USA.

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

English Names

Central Georgia Slimy Salamander (Highton in Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 60).

Ocmulgee Slimy Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; 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: 27; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 21; 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: 30).

Distribution

Upper Coastal Plain and adjacent Piedmont physiographic provinces of central Georgia, USA, mostly in the drainage of the Ocmulgee River.

Comment

In the Plethodon glutinosus group, according to the original publication. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 355, rejected the distinction from Plethodon glutinosus on the basis of overall similarity. Wiens, Engstrom, and Chippindale, 2006, Evolution, 60: 2585-2603, suggested the possibility that Plethodon ocmulgee and Plethodon savannah are conspecific; Highton, Hastings, Palmer, Watts, Hass, Culver, and Arnold, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 63: 278-290, discussed the evidence for this and rejected the hypothesis.

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