Eurycea paludicola (Mittleman, 1947)

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

Manculus quadridigitatus paludicolus Mittleman, 1947, Herpetologica, 3: 220. Holotype: USNM 123979, by original designation. Type locality: "Pollock, Grant Parish, Louisiana", USA.

Manculus quadridigitatus uvidus Mittleman, 1947, Herpetologica, 3: 221. Holotype: USNM 123980 (formerly SM 2338), by original designation and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 16. Type locality: "Gayle, Caddo Parish, Louisiana", USA. Synonymy by Wray, Means, and Steppan, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 36. 

Eurycea paludicola — Wray, Means, and Steppan, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 36. 

Eurycea (Manculus) paludicola — Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 559.

English Names

Western Dwarf Salamander (Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 28). 

Distribution

Known from throughout the eastern third of Texas, eastward into portions of southern Arkansas, most of Louisiana, and southern Mississippi, USA. 

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Arkansas, United States of America - Louisiana, United States of America - Mississippi, United States of America - Texas

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

 Wray, Means, and Steppan, 2017, Herpetol. Monogr., 31: 18–46, revised the Eurycea quadriditata complex, recognized this species, and noted that it is most closely related to the neotenic Eurycea of the Edwards Plateau of central Texas, USA. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 559–560, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map). Tighe, 2022, Smithson. Contrib. Zool., 654: 35–35–36, briefly discussed the current location of the paratypes of Eurycea paludicola and Manculus quadridigitatus uvidusBassett, 2023, Reptiles & Amphibians, 30(e18486): 1–18, provided an updated county distribution map for Texas, USA.

 

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