Distribution and Habitat

Country distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: United States

U.S. state distribution from AmphibiaWeb's database: North Carolina, Tennessee

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	View Bd and Bsal data (1 records).

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This species was featured in News of the Week December 4, 2023:

The advent of genome-scale data has brought a new appreciation for the importance of hybridization and introgression in the evolutionary history of many organisms, including amphibians. These reticulate evolutionary histories can be challenging to reconstruct and may lead to discordance among inferences made from molecular and morphological datasets. Pierson et al. (2023) gathered genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data from the two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata) species complex—a group of widespread and abundant lungless salamanders. This study used a variety of phylogenomic methods to demonstrate that hybridization and introgression are responsible for the conflicting results of previous studies and may have resulted from a complicated history of river drainage reorganization in the region. The results highlight the inadequacy of the current taxonomy for fully describing species boundaries in the E. bislineata species complex and provide a more robust phylogenetic framework for future systematic studies. (Written by Todd Pierson)

Species Account Citation: AmphibiaWeb 2023 Eurycea junaluska: Junaluska Salamander <https://amphibiaweb.org/species/4051> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed Nov 21, 2024.

Citation: AmphibiaWeb. 2024. <https://amphibiaweb.org> University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. Accessed 21 Nov 2024.

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