Necturus alabamensis

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Necturus alabamensis Viosca, 1937

Holotype: USNM 102676, mature ♀, collected by J. Henry Walker, Jr. in 22 January 1914.
Type locality: “Black Warrior River near Tuscaloosa, [Tuscaloosa County,] Alabama”, United States.

Necturus alabamensis Viosca, 1937: 121 [original combination]
Necturus beyeri alabamensis — Hecht, 1958: 17 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]
Necturus alabamensis — Neill, 1963: 166 [subsequent combination, restaure to species]
Necturus punctatus alabamensis — Brode, 1970: 5288 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]

Viosca, Jr., P. 1937. A Tentative Revision of the Genus Necturus with Descriptions of Three New Species from the Southern Gulf Drainage Area. Copeia 1937(2): 120–138. DOI: 10.2307/1436953 Reference page.
Neill, W.T. 1963. Notes on the Alabama Waterdog, Necturus alabamensis Viosca. Herpetologica 19(3): 166–174. JSTOR Reference page.
Brode, W.E. 1970. A systematic study of salamanders of the genus Necturus Rafinesque. Dissertation Abstracts International. B, The Sciences and Engineering 30: 5288–5289.

Guttman, S.I., Weigt, L.A., Moler, P.E., Ashton, Jr., R.E., Mansell, B.W. & Peavy, J. 1990. An Electrophoretic Analysis of Necturus from the Southeastern United States. Journal of Herpetology 24(2): 163–175. DOI: 10.2307/1564224 Reference page.
Bart, Jr., H.L., Bailey, M.A., Ashton, Jr., R.E. & Moler, P.E. 1997. Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Status of the Upper Black Warrior River Waterdog. Journal of Herpetology 31(2): 192–201. DOI: 10.2307/1565387 Reference page.
Chabarria, R.E., Murray, C.M., Moler, P.E., Bart, Jr., H.L., Crother, B.I. & Guyer, C. 2018. Evolutionary insights into the North American Necturus beyeri complex (Amphibia: Caudata) based on molecular genetic and morphological analyses. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56(3): 352–363. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12203 Reference page.

Hammerson, G. & Bailey, M. 2004. IUCN: Necturus alabamensis (Endangered). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T59430A11940680. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2004.RLTS.T59430A11940680.en. Accessed on 05 October 2022.

English: Black Warrior Waterdog

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