Eurycea junaluska Sever, Dundee, and Sullivan, 1976

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Hemidactyliinae > Genus: Eurycea > Species: Eurycea junaluska

Eurycea junaluska Sever, Dundee, and Sullivan, 1976, Herpetologica, 32: 26. Holotype: USNM 198421, by original designation. Type locality: "U.S. Route 129, 3. 2-11. 2 km SE Tapoco, Graham County, North Carolina", USA.

Eurycea (Eurycea) junaluskaRaffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 186; Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 133.

Eurycea (Manculus) junaluskaDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 143.

English Names

Junaluska Salamander (Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 6; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; 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: 23; 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: 27; Powell, Conant, and Collins, 2016, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. North Am., 4th ed.: 55; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 27).

Distribution

Disjunct populations in Tennessee and North Carolina, USA: Unicoi Mountains in the west, Snowbird Mountains in the south, Cheoah Mountains to the east and the Great Smoky Mountains in the north.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - North Carolina, United States of America - Tennessee

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

See accounts by Sever, 1983, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 321: 1-2, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 251–253. Jacobs, 1987, Herpetologica, 43: 423-446, discussed phylogenetic relationships. Ryan, 1997, Copeia, 1997: 210-215, discussed larvae and distribution. See map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Ryan and Sever, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 745–746 (who also provided access to all relevant literature), and Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 572. Bonett, Steffen, Lambert, Wiens, and Chippindale, 2014 "2013", Evolution, 68: 473, suggested that this species is the sister taxon of Eurycea aquaticaRaffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 247, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 108–109, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 552, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 33, noted the current location of paratypes. 

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