Plethodon ouachitae Dunn and Heinze, 1933
Plethodon ouachitae Dunn and Heinze, 1933, Copeia, 1933: 121. Holotype: USNM 92484, by original designation. Type locality: "Ouachita National Forest, on Rich Mountain, Polk Co[unty]., Arkansas", USA.
Plethodon (Plethodon) ouachitae — Vieites, Román, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632. By implication.
English Names
Ouachita Salamander (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 269).
Rich Mountain Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 37; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 279; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 8; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; 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
Known from the Ouachita Mountains, Polk and Scott counties, southwestern Arkansas, and Latimer and LeFlore counties, southeastern Oklahoma, USA.
Comment
In the Plethodon glutinosus group of Highton and Larson, 1979, Syst. Zool., 28: 579-599. Reviewed by Blair, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 40: 1-2. See comment under Plethodon fourchensis. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 640. Shepard and Burbrink, 2008, Mol. Ecol., 17: 5315-5335, discussed molecular phylogeographic patterns. Shepard, Irwin, and Burbrink, 2011, Herpetologica, 67: 355-368, reported on morphological diversification on the landscape.
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