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Pope, Clifford H.

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AMPHIBIA: CAUDATA: PLETHODONTIDAE14.1PLETHODON CADDOENSISMAP. The solid symbolmarksthe type-locality. Hol-low symbolsshowall otherknownlocalities.LITERATURECITEDAdler, Kraig K., & David M. Dennis. 1962. PIetho-donlongicrus,a newsalamander(Amphibia:Pleth-odontidae)from North Carolina. Ohio Herpetol.Soc.Spec.Publ., (4):1-14,2 pIs.Blair, Albert P. 1957. A comparisonof living Pleth-odonouachitaeandP. caddoensis.Copeia,1957:47-48.Dowling, Herndon G. 1956. GeographicrelationsofOzarkian amphibiansand reptiles. SouthwesternNat.,1:174-189.- 1957. A review of the amphibiansand reptiles ofArkansas. Occas.PapersUniv. ArkansasMus., (3):1-51.Grobman,Arnold B. 1944. The distribution of tbesalamandersof the genus Plethodon in easternUnited Statesand Canada. Ann. New York Acad.Sci., 45:261-316.Highton,Richard. 1962. Revisionof North Americansalamandersof the genusPlethodon. Bull. FloridaState Mus., 6:235-367.Pope,Clifford H., & Sarah H. Pope. 1951. A studyof the salamanderPlethodonouachitaeand the de-scription of an allied form. Bull. ChicagoAcad.Sci., 9:129-152.C. H. POPE,ROUTE3, Box 807A,ESCONDIDO,CALIFORNIAIssued15September1964. Publicationis supportedbyNationalScienceFoundationgrant G24231.© Ameri-can Societyof Ichthyologistsand Herpetologists1964.(POPE,CLIFFORDH. 1964. Plethodoncaddoensis,p. 14.In W. J. Riemer(ed.),Catalogueof AmericanAmphib-ians and Reptiles. AmericanSocietyof Ichthyologistsand Herpetologists,Kensington,Maryland.PlethodoncaddoensisPope&PopeCaddoMountainsalamanderPlethodonouachitae(Dunn& Heintze)Grobman,1944:285(partim).PlethodoncaddoensisPope & Pope, 1951:148.Type-locality, "1200feet on Polk CreekMountainof theCaddoMountains,southwesternMontgomeryCoun-ty, Arkansas." Holotype, female, Chicago Nat.Hist. Mus. 61959,collectedby Sarah H. Pope, 9May 1950.• CONTENT.No su!?speciesare recognized.• DEFINITION. Maturity is reachedat a bodylength(snoutto anteriorangleof vent) of about40mm,anda maximumbodylengthof 52mmis attained. Largewhitespotsandmorenumerousbrassyflecksare scat-teredovertheback,the groundcolorof whichis black.The total numberof vomerineteethin adultsrangesfrom 16 to 25. The tips of the adpressedlimbs areseparatedby lessthanonecostalspace. Thereareusu-ally 16costalgrooves.• DESCRIPTIONS.Dark pigmentationis almost en-tirely absentfrom the chin andthe rest of the venteranteriorto theforelimbs. Whitepigmentationis abun-danton the sides.The original description(Pope & Pope, 1951)re-mainsthe mostdetailedoneavailable,althoughHigh-ton (1962:325-327)and Blair (1957)also describethespeciesfrom living material.Juveniles are inadequatelyknown. The eggs areundescribed.• ILLUSTRATIONS.No illustrationsof this speciesarepublished.• DISTRIBUTION.This speciesis endemicto the Oua-chita MountainsProvince of the Interior Highlands.It is recordedfrom the CaddoMountainsof southernMontgomeryCounty and adjacentPolk County, Ar-kansas. In additionto the type-localityand the col-lection site of the paratypes(Deep Gap), there is athird record for MontgomeryCounty: Camp AlbertPike RecreationArea (Blair, 1957). The two recordsfor Polk County are "a hilly area just north of BigFork" (Dowling, 19,57:11)and "Bard Spring Recrea-tion Area" (Highton,1962:326).The holotypeandthetwo paratypesweretakenat 1200and950feet altitudein second-growth,mixed deciduouswoodswith somepine.• FOSSILRECORD.None.• PERTINENTLITERATURE.Pope & Pope (1951:148-150) describein detail collectingthe types and showlocalities on a map; Dowling (1956:179)states thatP. caddoerzsisand P. ouachitaeare seenon the forestfloorearlier in theeveningthan is P. glutinosus;Blair(1957)comparesthe colorationof living specimensofP. caddoensisandP. ouachitae;Highton (1962:325-328)dealswith P. caddoensisin his revisionof Plethodon,and includesa graphic illustration of vomerinetoothcounts; Adler & Dennis (1962:9-10)comparethesecountsin P. yonahlossee,P. ouachitae,P. Iongicrus,andP. caddoensis.• ETYMOLOGY.The speciescaddoerzsisi namedafterthe CaddoMountainsin whichit was first found. ThenameCaddois of Indianorigin; tribesoccupyingnorth-easternTexas and adjacentterritory were known asthe CaddoIndians.....- .:""''''.?.••.:,1'.•.•...•..••.'1 •••,Texas20II4030J

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