Combinations

• Desmognathus ochrophaea Cope, 1859: 124 [original combination, incorrect gender agreement]
• Plethodon ochrophaeus — Smith, 1877: 71 [subsequent combination]
• Desmognathus ochrophaeus — Boulenger, 1882: 77 [subsequent combination, correct gender agreement]
• Desmognathus ochrophaea ochrophaea — Dunn, 1917: 415 [subsequent combination, incorrect gender agreement, as subspecies]
• Desmognathus ochrophaeus ochrophaeus — Stejneger & Barbour, 1917: 22 [subsequent combination, as subspecies]
• Desmognathus fuscus ochrophaeus — Dunn, 1926: 114 [subsequent combination, reduce to subspecies]

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1859. On the primary divisions of the Salamandridae, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 11: 122–128. BHL Reference page. 
• Smith, W.H. 1877. The Tailed Amphibians, Including the Caecilians. A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of Michigan University. Herald Publishing House: Detroit.
• Boulenger, G.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia s. Caudata and Batrachia Apoda in the Collection of the British Museum. Second Edition. Taylor and Francis: London.
• Dunn, E.R. 1917. The salamanders of the genera Desmognathus and Leurognathus. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 53: 393–433.
• Stejneger. L. & Barbour, T. 1917. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. Harvard University Press: Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Dunn, E.R. 1926. The Salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae. Smith College 50th Anniversary Publication: Northampton, Massachusetts.

Links

• Frost, D. 2008. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 5.2 (15 July, 2008). Electronic Database accessible at www.research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Desmognathus ochrophaeus
• AmphibiaWeb: Information on amphibian biology and conservation. [web application]. 2010. Berkeley, California: Desmognathus ochrophaeus. AmphibiaWeb, available at http://amphibiaweb.org/.

• IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group. 2015. IUCN: Desmognathus ochrophaeus  (Least Concern). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2015: e.T59253A63999116. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T59253A63999116.en