Menopoma fusca

Menopoma fusca Holbrook, 1842e:99, pl. 33

[= Salamandra alleganiensis Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801b]

Holbrook described a second species of Hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) “which was captured in the waters of French Broad, by my friend Dr. Hardy, of Ashville, Buncomb county, North Carolina ” and “inhabits the waters of the mountainous regions of North Carolina and Georgia, where they are said to be abundant.” The holotype of Menopoma fusca Holbrook, 1842e is the only specimen he had seen, and the relatively crude illustration by C. Rogers was done from life using this individual. Its location and disposition are unknown. As noted above, the population segment from the Tennessee River drainage is actually Salamandra alleganiensis Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801b (Hime 2017; Frétey and Raffaëlli 2021), and M. fusca Holbrook, 1842e is consequently a junior subjective synonym thereof.