Eurycea naufragia Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000

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

Eurycea naufragia Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 37. Holotype: TNHC 58860, by original designation. Type locality: "headsprings of Buford Hollow, a small tributary of the South San Gabriel River below Lake Georgetown, 30° 39′ 39″ N, 97° 43′ 36″ W.", Williamson County, Texas, USA.

Eurycea (Paedomolge, Septentriomolge) naufragiaHillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 275.

Eurycea (Septentriomolge) naufragiaRaffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 182; Devitt, Wright, Cannatella, and Hillis, 2019, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116: 2626. 

Eurycea (Paedomolge) naufragiaDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 144.

Eurycea (Typhlomolge) naufragiaFouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 140. 

English Names

Georgetown Salamander (Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 23; 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.: 61; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 28).

San Gabriel Springs Salamander (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 573; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 12).

Distribution

Known only from springs in central Williamson County, Texas, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Texas

Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - Texas

Comment

 Chippindale, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 756–757, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. 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: 573. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 242, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 110, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Devitt, Wright, Cannatella, and Hillis, 2019, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116: 2624–2633, reported on the phylogenetic relationships and aquifer loyalty of this species, noted previous confusion with Eurycea chisholmensis, and redelimited the species and its range. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 527, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). 

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