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. Following are comments, accompanied by cited references, on the taxonomic and nomenclatural changes plus an updated distribution map and bibliographical information on new county records as they pertain to A. barbouri:
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 original A. texanum distribution map should be deleted.
Literature Cited:
Scott, A. F., B. T. Miller, M. Brown, J. W. Petranka. 1997. Geographic distribution: Ambystoma barbouri. Herpetol. Rev. 28:155.
Updated Distribution Map
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Literature Containing 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.
Rutherford County
Scott, A. F., B. T. Miller, M. Brown, J. W. Petranka. 1997. Geographic distribution: Ambystoma barbouri. Herpetol. Rev. 28:155.
Trousdale County
Anderson, M. A., J. R. Campbell, A. N. Carey, D. R.
Dodge, R. A. Johnson, E. R. Mattison, R. J. Seddon, N. L. Singer and B.
T. Miller. 2012. Population survey of the Streamside Salamander, Ambystoma
barbouri, in the Inner and Outer Nashville Basin of Middle Tennessee.
Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 87:76. (Abstract)
Williamson County
Lockwood, R., W. B. Sutton, and B. T. Miller. 2016. Geographic distribution: Ambystoma barbouri. Herpetol. Rev. 47:243.
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.