Siren reticulata Graham, Kline, Steen, and Kelehear, 2018

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Sirenidae > Genus: Siren > Species: Siren reticulata

Siren reticulata Graham, Kline, Steen, and Kelehear, 2018, PLoS One, 13 (12: e0207460): 8. Holotype: AUM 40669, by original designation. Type locality: "A shallow (< 1m depth) marsh near Florala, Alabama, on the Walton County, Florida portion of Lake Jackson (Fig 1C). The marsh is separated from the open water of the lake to the northeast by swamp and a low dike and road." Zoobank publication registration: ED852CEE-52EE-40B6-9A9D-1F03B801E4B2

English Names

Reticulated Siren (original publication). 

Distribution

Currently known only from three locations: 1)Lake Jackson and associated marshes, which straddles the Florida (Walton County)–Alabama border, near Florala, Alabama; 2) near Eglin Air Force Base, Okaloosa County, Florida; and Fish River, a blackwater stream and associated bottomland forest in Baldwin County, Alabama, USA. 

Geographic Occurrence

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

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

The sister taxon of all other Siren species according to the original publication. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 11, provided an account. 

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