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Desmognathus auriculatus (Holbrook, 1838)
Salamandra auriculata Holbrook, 1838, N. Am. Herpetol., 3: 115. Type(s): Animal figured on pl. 28; listed by Dunn, 1926, Salamanders Fam. Plethodontidae: 98, as USNM 3901, but not mentioned in USNM list of types by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220, and discounted by Adler, 1976, Holbrook’s N. Am. Herpetol.: xxxviii. Specimens of this taxon presented to ANSP by Holbrook according to Hallowell, 1858, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 3: 344. Type locality: "Riceborough, [Liberty County,] in Georgia", USA.
Desmognathus auriculatus — Baird, 1850 "1849", J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 1: 286.
Cylindrosoma auriculatum — Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854, Erp. Gen., 9: 81.
Plethodon auriculatum — Hallowell, 1858, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ser. 2, 3: 344.
Desmognathus fuscus var. auriculata — Cope, 1869, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 21: 116.
Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus — Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Grad. Batr. Apoda Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 78.
Desmognathus auriculata — Lönnberg, 1894, Proc. U.S. Natl. Mus., 17: 337.
Desmognathus fuscus carri Neill, 1951, Publ. Res. Div. Ross Allen’s Rept. Inst., 1: 25. Holotype: ERA-WTN 14188, by original designation; now in UF. Type locality: "Silver Glen Springs, in the Ocala National Forest, Marion County, Florida", USA. Subspecies status as distinct from Desmognathus auriculatus rejected by Rossman, 1959, Herpetologica, 15: 149-155, and Means, 1974, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 18: 36.
Desmognathus auriculatus — Valentine, 1963, Copeia, 1963: 130.
Desmognathus (Desmognathus) auriculatus — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 145. See comment under Desmognathus regarding the status of these subgenera.
English Names
Eared Triton (Desmognathus auriculatus: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 22).
Eared Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus: Löding, 1922, Mus. Pap. Alabama Mus. Nat. Hist., 5: 15).
Southern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 193; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Conant, 1975, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am., Ed. 2: 263; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 5; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 31; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 6; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 20; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 16; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 11; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 25; Powell, Conant, and Collins, 2016, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. North Am., 4th ed.: 42; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 25).
Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus: Viosca, 1949, Pop. Sci. Bull., Louisiana Acad. Sci., 1: 9).
Southeastern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus auriculatus: Carr, 1940, Univ. Florida Biol. Sci. Ser., 3: 51).
Coast Plain Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus auriculatus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 29).
Ocala Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus carri [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 29).
Peninsula Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus carri [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174).
Distribution
Coastal Plain of Georgia and adjacent northern Florida, western to southern Alabama adjacent ot the Florida panhandle, USA.
Comment
See detailed acounts by Means, 1999, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 681: 1–6, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 164–166. Beamer and Lamb, 2008, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 47: 143–153, discussed the status of populations of this nominal species on the basis of an mtDNA phylogeny and suggested that populations had previously been misidentified due to morphological plasticity convergence, rather than mitochondiasl introgressio; specimens from eastern Texas previously assigned to this species are actually Desmognathus conanti. Further, they suggested that the population from which the type-specimen is restricted to the area of the Coastal Plain of Georgia and that populations, other populations formerly assigned to Desmognathus "auriculatus" being parts of nominal Desmognathus fuscus, Desmognathus conanti, or and unnamed species. Means, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 700–701, provided an account containing a detailed summary of the literature and range. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 101–102, provided an account of larval morphology. Means, Lamb, and Bernardo, 2017, Zootaxa, 4263: 467–506, redlimited the species.
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