Eurycea hillisi Wray, Means, and Steppan, 2017

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

Eurycea hillisi Wray, Means, and Steppan, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 38. Holotype: UF178829, by original designation. Type locality: "from under small sphagnum mat on slope above floodplain amidst thin layer of hardwood leaf litter on sandy soil, northwest side of intersection of Chipola River and State Road 20, Calhoun County, Florida, 30.433486°N, 85.171278°W". 

English Names

 Hillis’s Dwarf Salamander (original publication). 

Distribution

Throughout the southern half of Alabama, except the Mobile Bay region and near the Florida border, eastward into mid-central Georgia to the western edge of the Ogeechee River Basin, and between the Chipola and Choctawhatchee rivers of the central Florida Panhandle, USA. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Alabama, United States of America - Florida, United States of America - Georgia

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

In the Eurycea quadridigitata complex according to the original publication. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 557, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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