Neuse river waterdog

Neuse river waterdog

Necturus lewisi

ITIS Species Code: 173627 NatureServ Element Code: AAAAE01030

Taxa:

Order:

Family:

Amphibia

Caudata

Proteidae

NatureServe Global Rank:

NatureServe State (NC) Rank:

Federal Status:

NC State Status:

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HEXAGONAL KNOWN RANGE:

PREDICTED DISTRIBUTION:

SUMMARY OF STATEWIDE PREDICTED DISTRIBUTION:

Land Unit

US Fish & Wildlife Service

US Forest Service

US National Park Service

US Department of Defense

NC State Parks

NC University System

NC Wildlife Res. Com.

NC Forest Service

NC Div. of Coastal Mgmt.

Local Governments

Non-Governmental Org.

Other Public Lands

Private Lands

GAP Status 1-2

All Protected Lands

Statewide

Hectares

151.38

842.40

1,900.17

0.00

439.02

991.71

2,505.06

10.89

0.00

293.76

187.02

75.69

191,710.62

2,165.49

5,592.78

199,107.72

Acres

374.07

2,081.62

4,695.42

0.00

1,084.84

2,450.57

6,190.14

26.91

0.00

725.90

462.14

187.03

473,727.17

5,351.04

13,820.06

492,005.80

% of Dist. on

Prot. Lands

2.7 %

15.1 %

3.5 %

0.0 %

7.8 %

17.7 %

43.2 %

0.2 %

0.0 %

3.3 %

1.4 %

0.0 %

38.7 %

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% of Dist. on

All Lands

< 0.1 %

0.4 %

1.0 %

0.0 %

0.2 %

0.5 %

1.3 %

< 0.1 %

0.0 %

0.1 %

< 0.1 %

96.3 %

1.1 %

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HABITAT DESCRIPTION:

The Neuse River waterdog is endemic to North Carolina. Martof et al. (1980) states, 'It inhabits the main streams and larger tributaries of the Neuse and Tar rivers from well above tidewater into the lower piedmont.'
Quiet, backwaters and floodplain swampy areas with large amounts of leaf litter covering the substrate have been identified by some as the principal habitat of this species (Martof et al. 1980, Wilson 1995). However, others identify main channels of moderately sized streams with hard-clay substrate as the waterdog's primary dwelling place (Petranka 1998). From the studies leading to these differing observations, it is clear that the entire body of water is utilized, perhaps in support of different eco- biological functions.
NATURE SERVE GLOBAL HABITAT COMMENTS:
Stream dweller requiring relatively high oxygen levels and water quality (Ashton 1990). Among large accumulations of submerged leaves in eddies, or backwaters of streams (Bury et al. 1980). Eggs are attached to underside of objects in water.
NATURE SERVE STATE HABITAT COMMENTS:

In Piedmont and along fall line it inhabits moderate to swift flowing streams. In coastal plain it is found in or near the main stream of the Neuse and Tar rivers and their major tributaries.

MODELING DESCRIPTION:

Occupied Landcover Map Units:

Code	Name	Description	NC Natural Heritage Program Equivalent
50	Coastal Plain Mixed Bottomland Forests	Includes forests dominated by a variety of hardwood species, including sweetgum, cottonwood, red maple.	Coastal Plain Bottomland Hardwood (in part), Coastal Plain Levee Forest
49	Coastal Plain Oak Bottomland Forest	Bottomland forests dominated by deciduous oak alliances. Oaks represented can include swamp chestnut, cherrybark, willow, and/or overcup oak. Inclusions of loblolly pine temporarily flooded forests occur in patches. Hydrology is temporarily to seasonally flooded.	Coastal Plain Bottomland Hardwoods (in part) blackwater subtype, brownwater subtype
15	Seepage and Streamhead Swamps	Includes extensive peat flats in the coastal plain, dominated by swamp tupelo, maples, and Atlantic white cedar alliances. In the sandhills includes streamhead pond pine and bay forests alliances. Saturated hydrology.	Bay Forest, Small Depression Pocosin, Streamhead Atlantic White Cedar Forest, Streamhead Pocosins
30	Cypress-Gum Floodplain Forests	Swamps dominated by black or swamp tupelo with or without Taxodium. Seasonally to semi-permanently flooded hydrology.	Cypress-Gum Swamps
78	Pond-Cypress - Gum Swamps, Savannas and Lakeshores	Cypress dominated swamps and lakeshores. Can include bays dominated by pond cypress or shorelines of coastal plain lakes with a narrow band of cypress.	Non-riverine Swamp Forest, Natural Lakeshores (in part)
385	Oak Bottomland Forest and Swamp Forest	The swamp chestnut oak, cherrybark oak, shumard oak and sweetgum alliance is one representative. Other alliances are dominated by water, willow, and overcup oaks. Swamp forests can be dominated by sweetgum, red maple, and black gum being dominant. Loblolly can occur in combination with sweetgum and red maple, or with tulip poplar. Includes saturated and semi- to permanently flooded forests in the mountains.	Piedmont/Mountain Bottomland Forest, Piedmont/Mountain Swamp Forest
238	Piedmont/Mountain Submerged Aquatic Vegetation	Seasonally to permanently flooded areas with aquatic vegetation. Waterlily, pondweed, hydrilla smartweed are a few of the species that can occur.	Piedmont/Mountain Semipermanent Impoundment (in part)
239	Piedmont/Mountain Emergent Vegetation	Emergent vegetation of all wetland hydrologies. Sites would commonly support species such as tussock sedge, rushs, and cattail alliances.	Rocky Bar and Shore (in part)
269	Floodplain Wet Shrublands	Saturated shrublands of the Piedmont, includes buttonbush, swamp-loosestrife, decodon and alders.	Piedmont/mountain Semipermanent Impoundment
384	Piedmont/Mountain Mixed Bottomland Hardwood Forests	Includes temporarily to seasonally forests dominated by hardwood species. Hardwoods include sweetgum, red maple, sycamore which co-occur in a mosaic of bottomland and levee positions. Includes alluvial hardwood forests in the mountains. Hemlock and white pine may occur as inclusions, but are generally mapped separately.	Piedmont/Mountain Alluvial Forest, Piedmont/Mountain Levee Forest
8	Open water	Open water without aquatic vegetation.	No equivalent

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Additional Spatial Constraints:

Exclude all area outside of known range.

Exclude all land greater than 50 meters from an open water feature.

Exclude all land greater than 50 meters from wet vegetation.

Exclude all water greater than 50 meters from land.

Exclude brackish and salt water habitats.

CITATIONS:

Maxson, L. R., P. E. Moler, and B. W. Mansell. 1988. Albumin evolution in salamanders of the genus NECTURUS. J. Herpetol. 22:231-235.

Wilson, L. A. 1995. The Land Manager's Guide to the amphibians and reptiles of the South. Chapel Hill, NC: The Nature Conservancy.

Petranka, J. W. 1998. Salamanders of the United States and Canada. Washington DC: Smithsonian Inst. Press.

Ashton, R. E., Jr. 1990. NECTURUS LEWISI. Cat. Am. Amph. Rept. 456.1-456.2.

Guttman, S. I., et al. 1990. An electrophoretic analysis of NECTURUS from the southeastern United States. J. Herpetol. 24:163-175.

Behler, J. L., and F. W. King. 1979. The Audubon Society field guide to North American reptiles and amphibians. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. 719 pp.

Bury, R. B., C. K. Dodd, Jr., and G. M. Fellers. 1980. Conservation of the Amphibia of the United States:a review. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C., Resource Publication 134. 34 pp.

Martof, B. S., W. M. Palmer, J. R. Bailey, and J. R. Harrison, III. 1980. Amphibians and reptiles of the Carolinas and Virginia. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 264 pp.

10 March 2005

This data was compiled and/or developed by the North Carolina GAP Analysis Project.

For more information please contact them at:
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