Desmognathus fuscus carri Neill, 1951

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Invalid (synonym) (Pyron et al., 2022)

Last record: c.50 years ago (Pyron et al., 2022)

Distribution

Florida, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Original scientific description:

Neill, W. T. (1951). A new subspecies of dusky salamander, genus Desmognathus, from south-central Florida. Publications of the Research Division, Ross Allen’s Reptile Institute Silver Springs 1: 25-38.

Other references:

Pyron, R. Alexander et al. (2021). Understanding “Alexandrian” extinctions using genomic DNA from fluid-preserved museum specimens of Desmognathus salamanders. ResearchSquare preprint. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-769753/v1

Pyron, R. Alexander et al. (2022). Contextualizing enigmatic extinctions using genomic DNA from fluid-preserved museum specimens of Desmognathus salamanders. Conservation Genetics 23: 375-386. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01424-4

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