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Necturus alabamensis Viosca, 1937
Necturus alabamensis Viosca, 1937, Copeia, 1937: 121. Holotype: USNM 102676, by original designation. Type locality: "Black Warrior River near Tuscaloosa, [Tuscaloosa County,] Alabama", USA.
Necturus beyeri alabamensis — Hecht, 1958, Proc. Staten Island Inst. Arts Sci., 21: 17.
Necturus alabamensis — Neill, 1963, Herpetologica, 19: 166.
Necturus punctatus alabamensis — Brode, 1970, Dissert. Abstr. Internatl., Ser. B, 30: 5288.
Necturus (Necturus) alabamensis — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 147.
English Names
Alabama Waterdog (Conant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 200; 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).
Black Warrior Waterdog (Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 24; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15).
Black Warrior River Waterdog (Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 28; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 30).
Distribution
Restricted to the Upper Black Warrior River drainage, Alabama (see comment).
Comment
Brode, 1970, Dissert. Abstr. Internatl., Ser. B, 30: 5288–5289, suggested that Necturus alabamensis (as Necturus punctatus alabamensis), Necturus beyeri (as Necturus punctatus beyeri), and Necturus punctatus (as Necturus punctatus punctatus) form a series of intergrading populations. Species status supported by Guttman, Weigt, Moler, Ashton, Mansell, and Peavy, 1990, J. Herpetol., 24: 163–175 (who also suggested that Necturus alabamensis might be a composite of two species). The status of Necturus lodingi deserves additionally scrutiny and for that reason is recognized in this catalogue (see Necturus lodingi). Bailey and Moler, 2003, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 761: 1–2, reveiwed the species. Bailey, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 866–867, 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: 598. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 126–127, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Chabarria, Murray, Moler, Bart, Crother, and Guyer, 2018, J. Zool. Syst. Evol. Res., 56: 352–363, discussed the phylogenetic placement of this species.
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