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ash2016 Gulf Coast Mud Salamander (Subspecies Pseudotriton montanus flavissimus)

move to P. flavissimus

Nov. 16, 2023 01:51:04 +0000 loarie

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@loarie do you have to do this or can anyone do this?

Posted by wildlander 4 months ago

I can do the swap. Do we have to split Pseudotriton montanus? ie was Pseudotriton flavissimus carved off from Pseudotriton montanus such that their ranges no longer overlap?>

Posted by loarie 4 months ago

I believe we do, also it'd be worth looking into seeing if P. diastictus (P. montanus diastictus) should be split off as well, because if you're splitting flavissimus as its own species I want to say you need to do that as well.

Posted by wildlander 4 months ago

ASW says for flavissimus: Extreme southeastern Louisiana, through southern Mississippi, southern to northeastern Alabama, and southern Georgia south to north-central Florida, USA.

For diastictus: Southern Ohio, and southwestern West Virginia south through Kentucky, central and eastern Tennessee, and Virginia west of the Appalachian Divide to extreme northern Georgia, USA.

For montanus: East of the Appalachian divide from southern New Jersey (with isolated populations in adjacent Pennsylvania) and Maryland through eastern Virginia to east-central Georgia and southern South Carolina, USA.

Unless you've already read this and have still found ambiguous individuals, in which case morphological differences might be best to base off of.

Posted by ash2016 3 months ago
Posted by loarie 3 months ago

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