Eurycea chisholmensis Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000

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

Eurycea chisholmensis Chippindale, Price, Wiens, and Hillis, 2000, Herpetol. Monogr., 14: 40. Holotype: TNHC 58859, by original designation. Type locality: "side spring immediately adjacent to Main (= Salado, Big Boiling, or Siren) Springs, Salado, Bell Co., Texas, 30° 56′ 37″ N, 97° 32′ 31″ W."

Eurycea (Paedomolge, Septentriomolge) chisholmensisHillis, Chamberlain, Wilcox, and Chippindale, 2001, Herpetologica, 57: 275. See comments under Eurycea.

Eurycea (Septentriomolge) chisholmensisRaffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 182; Devitt, Wright, Cannatella, and Hillis, 2019, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116: 2624–2633. 

Eurycea (Paedomolge) chisholmensisDubois and Raffaëlli, 2012, Alytes, 28: 99.

Eurycea (Typhlomolge) chisholmensisFouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 139. 

English Names

Salado Salamander (Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 22; 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: 27).

Chisholm Trail Salamander (Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 572; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 12).

Distribution

Known from several springs in central Bell to north-central Williamson 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

Chippindale, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 739–740, provided a detailed account that summarized the literature. 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, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 242, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 110, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Devitt, Wright, Cannatella, and Hillis, 2019, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 116: 2624–2633, reported on the phylogenetic relationships and aquifer loyalty of this species, discussed previous confusion with Eurycea naufragia and redelimited its range. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 526, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). 

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