Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Necturus beyeri Viosca, 1937, Copeia, 1937: 123. Holotype: USNM 102674, by original designation. Type locality: "Upper Calcasieu River near Oakdale, [Allen Parish,] Louisiana", USA.

Necturus maculosus beyeri — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 13.

Necturus beyeri beyeri — Hecht, 1958, Proc. Staten Island Inst. Arts Sci., 21: 16.

Necturus punctatus beyeri — Brode, 1970, Dissert. Abstr. Internatl., Ser. B, 30: 5288.

English Names

Beyer's Mudpuppy (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 29).

Speckled Waterdog (Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 9).

Beyer's Waterdog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 13).

Gulf Coast Waterdog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 13; 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: 244; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 7; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 24; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 19; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 28).

Distribution

Two populations on either side of the valley of the Mississippi River: central Louisiana to East Texas; Florida Parishes of Louisiana to central Mississippi. Records of similar animals of unknown taxonomic status from western Florida, western Georgia, west to Louisiana, USA.

Comment

See comment under Necturus alabamensis. Bart, Bailey, Ashton, and Moler, 1997, J. Herpetol., 31: 192-201, suggested that this nominal taxon likely contains more than one species, USA, and suggested that populations on the eastern Gulf slope from Lake Pontchartrain through Ochlockonee river drainages be referred to as "Necturus sp. cf. beyeri". Reports of similar animals to western Georgia and western Florida may be based on misidentifications or suggest that further work is warrnated. See comment under Necturus alabamensis. , Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia-USA, Florida

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