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AMBYSTOMA OPACUM (Marbled Salamander). USA: VIRGINIA: SCOTT CO: Rikemo Lodge, ca. 1 km SW of Dungannon. 8 May 1999. Christopher S. Hobson, Steven M. Roble, Anne C. Chazal. Verified by Richard Hoffmann. Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) 10337. Sub-adult found in a small pit (ca. 0.25 m deep) covered by apiece of plywood at Rikemo Lodge, situated on a slope just above the floodplain of the Clinch River. First record for Scott Co., and first published record for southwestern Virginia (Mitchell and Reay 1999. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles in Virginia. Spec. Publ. No. 1, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, Richmond, Virginia. 122 pp.; Tobey 1985. Virginia's Amphibians and Reptiles: A Distributional Survey, Virginia Herpetological Survey, Purcellville, Virginia, 113 pp.). The nearest published records within the Ridge and Valley physiographic province are from Knox County, Tennessee (ca. 160 km SW), and Montgomery County, Virginia (ca. 180 km NE) (Redmond and Scott 1996. Atlas of Amphibians in Tennessee. Misc. Publ. No. 12, Center for Field Biology, Austin Peay State University, 94 pp.; Tobey 1985, op. cit.). This record partially fills a hiatus in the known range for this species that includes much of the southern Appalachians; northeastern Kentucky and Tennessee, western North Carolina, and southwestern Virginia (Conant and Collins 1991. Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern/Central North America. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, Massachusetts, 450 pp.).
Submitted by CHRISTOPHER S. HOBSON (e-mail [email protected]) and STEVEN M. ROBLE (e-mail: [email protected]), Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, Division of Natural Heritage, 217 Governor Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, USA.
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