Eurycea nana Bishop, 1941

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

Eurycea nana Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 6. Holotype: UMMZ 89759, by original designation. Type locality: "Lake at the head of the San Marcos River, at San Marcos, Hays County, Texas", USA.

Eurycea neotenes nanaSchmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 55.

Eurycea nanaConant, 1958, Field Guide Rept. Amph. E. Cent. N. Am.: 251.

Eurycea (Paedomolge, Notiomolge, Blepsimolge) nanaHillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 275. See comment under Eurycea.

Eurycea (Blepsimolge) nanaRaffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 178; Devitt, Wright, Cannatella, and Hillis, 2019, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116: 2624–2633. 

Eurycea (Notiomolge) nanaDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 144.

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

English Names

Dwarf Eurycea (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 439).

San Marcos Salamander (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 55; 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: 293; 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.: 61; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 28).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (San Marcos Springs, pool at the source of the San Marcos River, San Marcos, Hays 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

See accounts by Brown, 1967, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 35: 1–2, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 264–266. Validity supported by Chippindale, Price, and Hillis, 1998, Copeia, 1998: 1046–1049. See account in Chippindale, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 149–178. Chippindale and Fries, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 755–756, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 238, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. 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: 572. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 528–529, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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