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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Hickory Nut Gorge Green Salamander
Aneides caryaensis Patton, Apodaca, Corser, Wilson, Williams, Cameron, and Wake, 2019
AH-nee-des — KAH-ree-uh-EN-sis

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
New Species. Delimited from A. aeneus by Patton et al. (2019, Copeia 107(4): 748-763). (Pyron, R. Alexander, Christopher K. Beachy, David A. Beamer, and Kenneth M. Kozak. 2025. Caudata – Salamanders. Pages 10-21 in Kirsten E. Nicholson (Editor), Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, 9th Edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Lawrence, Kansas. 87 pp.)

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Occurrences:; 51 Total; 4 Museum; 47 Other
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Province/State Distribution:
United States: North Carolina

Taxonomic Etymology:
Named for its localized habitat.
Aneides — Greek an- = “not” + eidos = “form”
caryaensis — Latinized toponym from Hickory Nut Gorge, North Carolina — derived from Carya, genus of hickory trees + -ensis = “from.”

First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1950 Lowe, Charles H., Jr. The systematic status of the salamander Plethodon hardii, with a discussion of biogeographical problems in Aneides. Copeia 1950:92-99
1974 Wake, David B. Aneides.. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (157):1-2
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letter 13:1378-1389
2019 Patton, A., J. J. Apodaca, J. D. Corser, C. R. Wilson, L. A. Williams, A. D. Cameron, and David B. Wake. A new Green Salamander in the southern Appalachians: Evolutionary history of Aneides aeneus and implications for management and conservation with the description of a cryptic microendemic species. Copeia 2019:748–763

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