WoRMS taxon details
Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820)
1369392 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1369392)
accepted
Species
Desmognathus phoca (Matthes, 1855) · unaccepted
Salamandra phoca Matthes, 1855 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Triturus fuscus Rafinesque, 1820 · unaccepted
(of Triturus fuscus Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque, C. S. (1820). III Class. Erpetia.—The reptiles. <em>Annals of Nature, or, Annual Synopsis of New Genera and Species of Animals, Plants, etc. Discovered in North America. Lexington, Kentucky.</em> 1: 4–6. [details]
WoRMS (2025). Desmognathus fuscus (Rafinesque, 1820). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1369392 on 2025-09-21
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Triturus fuscus Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque, C. S. (1820). III Class. Erpetia.—The reptiles. <em>Annals of Nature, or, Annual Synopsis of New Genera and Species of Animals, Plants, etc. Discovered in North America. Lexington, Kentucky.</em> 1: 4–6. [details]
original description (of Salamandra phoca Matthes, 1855) Matthes, B. (1855). Die Hemibatrachier im Allgemeinen und die Hemibatrachier von Nord-Amerika im Speciellen. <em>Allgemeine Deutsche Naturhistorische Zeitung.</em> Neue Serie 1: 249–280. [details]
original description (of Salamandra phoca Matthes, 1855) Matthes, B. (1855). Die Hemibatrachier im Allgemeinen und die Hemibatrachier von Nord-Amerika im Speciellen. <em>Allgemeine Deutsche Naturhistorische Zeitung.</em> Neue Serie 1: 249–280. [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
