Allegheny Mountain dusky salamander: COSEWIC assessment and status report

Official title: COSEWIC Assessment and Update Status Report on the Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander (Great Lakes/St. Lawrence and Carolinian Populations) in Canada

COSEWIC
Assessment and Update Status Report
on the
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus Ochrophaeus

Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Population
Carolinian Population

in Canada

Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Population - Threatened
Carolinian Population - Endangered

2007



COSEWIC
Committee on the Status
of Endangered Wildlife
in Canada
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COSEPAC

Comité sur la situation
des espèces en péril
au Canada


COSEWIC status reports are working documents used in assigning the status of wildlife species suspected of being at risk. This report may be cited as follows:

COSEWIC 2007. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus (Great Lakes/St. Lawrence population and Carolinian population) in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. viii + 32 pp.
(Species at Risk Status Reports)

Previous reports:

COSEWIC 2001. COSEWIC assessment and update status report on the Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus in Canada.  Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. vi + 15 pp.

Alvo, R. and J. Bonin. 1998. COSEWIC status report on the mountain dusky salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus in Canada in COSEWIC assessment and status report on the mountain dusky salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus in Canada. Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa. 1-39 pp.

 

Production Note:

COSEWIC would like to acknowledge Tricia Markle for writing the update status report on the Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus (Great Lakes/St. Lawrence population and Carolinian population) in Canada, prepared under contract with Environment Canada, overseen and edited by David Green, Co-chair of the COSEWIC Amphibians and Reptiles Species Specialist Subcommittee.

For additional copies contact:

COSEWIC Secretariat
c/o Canadian Wildlife Service
Environment Canada
Ottawa ON
K1A 0H3

Tel.: 819–953–3215
Fax: 819–994–3684
E-mail: COSEWIC/COSEPAC@ec.gc.ca
http://www.cosewic.gc.ca

Également disponible en français sous le titre Évaluation et Rapport de situation du COSEPAC sur la Salamandre sombre des montagnes (Desmognathus ochrophaeus) (population des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent et population carolinienne) au Canada - Mise à jour.

Cover illustration:
Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander -- Photo by David M. Green.

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada 2007
Catalogue No.: CW69-14/512-2007E-PDF
ISBN: 978-0-662-45970-5

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