A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States
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1 Biology Department, Piedmont College, Demorest, GA, USA 2 Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA 3 Daniel B. Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA 4 Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA 5 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology & Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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