Plethodon sequoyah Highton, 1989

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Plethodontidae > Subfamily: Plethodontinae > Genus: Plethodon > Species: Plethodon sequoyah

Plethodon sequoyah Highton In Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 68. Holotype: USNM 257485, by original designation. Type locality: "locality 91 [34° 07′ 29″ N, 94° 40′ 15″ W]. . . , Beavers Bend State Park, at an elevation of 140 m, McCurtain County, Oklahoma", USA.

Plethodon (Plethodon) sequoyahVieites, Nieto-Roman, Wake, and Wake, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 59: 632, by implication.

English Names

Southeastern Oklahoma Slimy Salamander (Highton In Highton, Maha, and Maxson, 1989, Illinois Biol. Monogr., 57: 68).

Sequoyah Slimy Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 33; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 28; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 21; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 14; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 30; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 32).

Distribution

Known only from the type locality (Beavers' Bend State Park, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, USA).

Geographic Occurrence

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

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

Comment

In the Plethodon glutinosus group according to the original publication. Reviewed by Huntington, Stuhlman, and Cullen, 1993, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 557: 1–2. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 355, rejected the distinction from Plethodon glutinosus on the basis of overall similarity. See comment under Plethodon cinereus. Anthony, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 838, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Wiens, Engstrom, and Chippindale, 2006, Evolution, 60: 2585–2603, suggested the possibility that Plethodon albagula and Plethodon sequoyah are conspecific; Highton, Hastings, Palmer, Watts, Hass, Culver, and Arnold, 2012, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 63: 278–290, discussed the evidence for this and rejected the hypothesis. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 400, provided a brief account, photograph, and range map. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 919, provided an account summarizing systematics, morphology, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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