Eurycea chisholmensis

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Biome: Freshwater [1].

Ecology: It is an entirely aquatic species , known only from the immediate vicinity of spring outflows , under rocks, and in gravel substrate (Chippindale 2005). Breeding takes place in water.[1].

List of Habitats :

•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.9     Wetlands (inland) - Freshwater Springs and Oases   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eurycea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 32 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. aquatica (Jefferson County Salamander) · E. bislineata (Northern Two-Lined Salamander) · E. chamberlaini (Chamberlain's Dwarf Salamander) · E. chisholmensis (Salado Springs Salamander) · E. cirrigera (Southeastern Two-Lined Salamander) · E. guttolineata (Holbrook's Triton) · E. junaluska (Junaluska Salamander) · E. latitans (Cascade Caverns Salamander) · E. longicauda (Three-Lined Salamander) · E. longicauda longicauda (Longtail Salamander) · E. longicauda melanopleura (Dark-Sided Salamander) · E. lucifuga (Cave Salamander) · E. multiplicata (Many-Ribbed Salamander) · E. multiplicata griseogaster (Graybelly Salamander) · E. multiplicata multiplicata (Many-Ribbed Salamander) · E. nana (San Marcos Salamander) · E. naufragia (San Gabriel Springs Salamander) · E. neotenes (Texas Salamander) · E. pterophila (Blanco River Springs Salamander) · E. quadridigitata (Dwarf Salamander) · E. rathbuni (Texas Blind Salamander) · E. robusta (Robust Blind Salamander) · E. sosorum (Barton Springs Salamander) · E. spelaea (Grotto Salamander) · E. spelaeus (Grotto Salamander) · E. tonkawae (Jollyville Plateau Salamander) · E. tridentifera (Comal Blind Salamander) · E. troglodytes (Eurycea Troglodytes Complex) · E. tynerensis (Texas Neotenic Salamander) · E. wallacei (Georgia Blind Salamander) · E. waterlooensis (Austin Blind Salamander) · E. wilderae (Blue Ridge Two-Lined Salamander)

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Further Reading

• Amphibian Data. For additional documentation about utilization and CITES status, click on the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) link above to see the GAA account for this species or alternatively follow this link to the search function on the Global Amphibian Assessment web site and run your own search.
• Blackburn, L., Nanjappa, P. and Lannoo, M.J. 2001. An Atlas of the Distribution of U.S. Amphibians. Ball State University, Muncie, IN, USA.
• Chippindale, P.T. 2000. Species boundaries and species diversity in the central Texas hemidactyliine plethodontid salamanders, genus Eurycea. In: Bruce, R., Houck, L. and Jaeger, R. (eds), The Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders, pp. 149-165. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing, New York.
• Chippindale, P.T. 2005. Eurycea chisholmensis Chippindale, Price, Wiens and Hillis, 2000. In: Lannoo, M.J. (ed.), Amphibian Declines: the Conservation Status of United States Species, pp. 739-740. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
• Chippindale, P.T., Hillis, D.M. and Price, A.H. 1994. Relationships, status, and distribution of central Texas hemidactyliine plethodontid salamanders (Eurycea and Typhlomolge). Final Section 6 Report, July 1994, pp. 21 pp.
• Chippindale, P.T., Price, A.H., Wiens, J.J. and Hillis, D.M. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships and systematic revision of central Texas hemidactyliine plethodontid salamanders. Herpetological Monographs: 1-80.
• Crother, Brian I., Jeff Boundy, Jonathan A. Campbell, et al. / Moriarty, John J., ed. 2000. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. Herpetological Circular, no. 29. iv + 82. ISBN: 0-916984-54-0.
• Hillis, D.M., Chamberlain, D.A., Wilcox, T.P. and Chippindale, P.T. 2001. A new species of subterranean blind salamander (Plethodontidae: Hemidactyliini: Eurycea: Typhlomolge) from Austin, Texas, and a systematic revision of central Texas paedomorphic salamanders. Herpetologica: 266-280.
• IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
• Sweet, S.S. 1982. A distributional analysis of epigean populations of Eurycea neotenes in central Texas, with comments on the origin of troglobitic populations. Herpetologica: 430-444.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed April 18, 2012.
• Geoffrey Hammerson, Paul Chippindale 2004. Eurycea chisholmensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 25834
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-668290
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 668290
• IUCN ID: 209297
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AAAAD05190
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2286

Footnotes

1. Geoffrey Hammerson, Paul Chippindale 2004. Eurycea chisholmensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]

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