New County Records and Other Data Since 1996
Ambystoma barbouri Kraus and Petranka - Streamside Salamander
Since publication of Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee (Redmond, W. H. and A. F. Scott. 1996. The Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN. 94 pp.), several applicable taxonomic and nomenclatural changes and numerous reports of new county records have appeared in the literature. Comments, accompanied by cited references, on the taxonomic and nomenclatural changes plus bibliographical information on new county records as they pertain to A. barbouri follow:
Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Changes
Since the Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee was published in 1996, the specimens originally identified and reported as A. texanum from Davidson and Jackson counties have been determined, along with another recently discovered specimen from Rutherford County, to be A. barbouri (Streamside Salamander), which is a new species for the state (Scott et al. 1997). Therefore, dots in Davidson and Jackson counties on the A. texanum distribution map should be deleted and another map created for A. barbouri with dots in Davidson, Jackson, and Rutherford counties.
Literature Cited:
Scott, A. F., B. T. Miller, M. Brown, J. W. Petranka. 1997. Geographic distribution. Ambystoma barbouri. Herpetol. Rev. 28:155.
New County Records
Bedford, Marshall and Trousdale counties
Miller, B. T. 2011. Streamside
Salamander. Pp. 73-76 In M. L.
Niemiller and R. G. Reynolds (eds.), The amphibians of Tennessee. The University
of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 369 pp.
Wilson County
Niemiller, M. L., R. G. Reynolds, B. M. Glorioso, J. Spiess, and B. T. Miller. 2011. Herpetofauna of the Cedar Glades and associated habitats of the Inner Central Basin of Middle Tennessee. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:127-141.