Necturus beyeri

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 beyeri Viosca, 1937

Holotype: USNM 102674, mature ♀, collected by P. Viosca and Henry B. Chase, Jr. in 1928.
Type locality: “Upper Calcasieu River near Oakdale, [Allen Parish,] Louisiana”, United States.

Necturus beyeri Viosca, 1937: 123 [original combination]
Necturus maculosus beyeri — Schmidt, 1953: 13 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]
Necturus beyeri beyeri — Hecht, 1958: 18 [subsequent combination]
Necturus punctatus beyeri — Brode, 1970: 5288 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]

Necturus lödingi Viosca, 1937: 126
- Holotype: USNM 61752, mature ♀, collected by C. Löding in February 1918.
- Type locality: “Enslava Creek, near Mobile, [Mobile County,] Alabama”, United States.

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.
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.
Hecht 1958. Proc. Staten Island Inst. Arts Sci., 21: 16.

IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2014. IUCN: Necturus beyeri (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2014: e.T59431A64726751. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T59431A64726751.en. Accessed on 05 October 2022.

English: Gulf Coast Waterdog

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