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Locality 
5 specimens, UTKVZC 02032-36, 9 November 1977. 
Small trib. to Stuart Creek, 2.4 km (airline) 
W of Sharp Place, elev. 463-488 m; 2 specimens, 
UTKVZC 02049-50, 9 November 1977. 
M organ County 
North Prong of Flat Fork, approx. 6.6 km 
(airline) WNW of Fork Mountain; 2 specimens, 
UTKVZC 02704-05, 1976. 
Catoosa Wildlife Management Area, Pennykin 
Branch, elev. 494 m; 4 specimens, UTKVZC 
01169-72, 28 August 1977. 
Pickett County 
Small trib. to Rock Creek, 7.7 km (airline) 
NE of Sharp Place, elev. 408 m; 4 specimens, 
UTKVZC 02057-60, 9 November 1977. 
Scott County 
Small trib. to Bill’s Branch nr. USGS 
weather station, elev. 425-460 m; 8 specimens, 
UTKVZC 02267-74, 2 October 1976. 
* Localities not collected by the author. 
Associated species (N) 
D.fuscus (4) 
none 
none 
none 
D. fuscus (24)* 
D. monticola (1) 
(Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency 1978). The purpose of this study 
was to further delineate the range of D. welteri and to provide comments 
concerning its ecology and factors threatening the species in Tennessee. 
METHODS 
Field investigations were conducted from July 1976 to May 1979. 
Forty-one collection sites were visited and two people spent approx- 
imately, one hour at each site (Fig. 1). Because most published reports in- 
dicate that the range of D. welteri is predominantly within the Cum- 
berland Plateau and Mountain regions, most field efforts were concen- 
trated in these regions of Tennessee. However, field searches were con- 
ducted in the adjacent Highland Rim and Ridge and Valley. 
Eighty-five specimens of D. welteri from sixteen localities were 
collected and deposited in The University of Tennessee Vertebrate 
Zoology Collection, Knoxville (UTKVZC). At each locality, general 
habitat characteristics were noted, and associated desmognathine species 
were collected and deposited in UTKVZC (Table 1). General habitat 
characteristics and desmognathine species present were also noted for 
collection sites where D. welteri was not found (Table 2). Seventy-one 
specimens of D. welteri from three localities were examined from the 
Auburn University Museum (AUM) (Table 1). Morphological charac- 
teristics used to distinguish D. welteri from other sympatric 
desmognathine species were taken from Caldwell (1977, 1980), Caldwell 
and Trauth (1979), and Conant (1975). 
