Necturus lewisi Brimley, 1924

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Proteidae > Genus: Necturus > Species: Necturus lewisi

Necturus maculosus lewisi Brimley, 1924, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 40: 167. Holotype: Brimley 6868, by original designation; now USNM 73848, according to Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 66. Type locality: "Neuse River, near Raleigh", Wake County, North Carolina, USA.

Necturus lewisiBishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 32; Hecht, 1958, Proc. Staten Island Inst. Arts Sci., 21: 15.

Necturus maculosus lewisiSchmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 13; Brode, 1970, Dissert. Abstr. Internatl., Ser. B, 30: 5288-5289.

Necturus (Necturus) lewisiDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 147.

English Names

Lewis' Mudpuppy (Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 32).

Neuse River Waterdog (Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 13; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; 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: 8; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 25; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; 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

Neuse and Tar-Pamlico River systems, North Carolina, USA, sea level–160 m elevation. See comment. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - North Carolina

Endemic: United States of America, United States of America - North Carolina

Comment

See accounts by Ashton, 1990, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 456: 1–2, and Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 422–425. See also Ashton, Braswell, and Guttman, 1981 "1980", Brimleyana, 4: 43–46, for evidence in support of the distinctiveness of this taxon from Necturus maculosus and Necturus punctatus. Brode, 1970, Dissert. Abstr. Internatl., Ser. B, 30: 5288–5289, suggested that Necturus lewisi (as Necturus maculosus lewisi) and Necturus maculosus (as Necturus maculosus maculosus) formed an intergrading series of populations. See also Guttman, Weigt, Moler, Ashton, Mansell, and Peavy, 1990, J. Herpetol., 24: 163–175, for geographic variation in allozymes. Braswell, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 868–870, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 641. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 217–218, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 127–128, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Nelson, Niemiller, and Fitzpatrick, 2017, J. Herpetol., 51: 559–566, reported a population of Necturus aff. lewisi from the western side of the Appalachian range in eastern Tennessee, which seemingly is involved in ongoing hybridization with Necturus maculosus. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 476–478, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map) as well as a brief discussion of Necturus aff. lewisi from Tennessee, USA. Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 66, briefly discussed location of paratypes. 

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