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R. L. Jones 



Georg i a 



Fig. 1. Distribution of D. aeneus in Tennessee. Solid symbols represent localities 

 from which specimens were examined, open symbol represents a literature 

 record, dashed line represents approximate western boundary of Blue Ridge 

 Physiographic Province. 



son (1967) felt that the Little Tennessee River acted as a barrier to the 

 dispersal of this species. My efforts to locate populations in the area 

 immediately north of this river in Tennessee have been unsuccessful. 



Habitat 



Desmognathus aeneus has been characterized as an inhabitant of 

 seepages and of the leaf litter near small streams in wooded areas (Fol- 

 kerts 1968). I found that the mean distance from nearest open water was 

 7.8 m (range 0.3-30.1 m) for 55 D. aeneus from the Citico Creek 

 watershed, Monroe County, during summer 1976. Sixty percent of these 

 were found within 5 m of streams and seepage areas (Table 1). How- 

 ever, specimens also can be found a considerable distance into the sur- 



