Flagger | Content Author | Content | Reason | Flag Created | Resolved by | Resolution |
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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 |
see comments |
Does anyone have info on ranges to guide this split
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/138975
?
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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.
thanks - committed! https://www.inaturalist.org/taxon_changes/138975
@loarie do you have to do this or can anyone do this?