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Amphibia    Caudata    Plethodontidae  

Oregon Slender Salamander
Batrachoseps wrighti (Bishop, 1937)

SSAR 9th Edition Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.12.03.08)
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Oregon

First instance(s) of published English names:
Oregon Slender Salamander (Batrachoseps wrighti: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
Amphibian Species of the World
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1937 Bishop, Sherman C. A remarkable new salamander from Oregon. Herpetologica 1:93–95
1949 Stebbins, Robert C. and Charles H. Lowe. The systematic status of Plethopsis with a discussion of speciation in the genus Batrachoseps. Copeia 1949(2):116-129
1953 Tanner, Wilmer W. Notes on the life history of Plethopsis wrighti Bishop. Herpetologica 9:139-140
1953 Storm, Robert M. Range extensions of the salamander, Batrachoseps wrighti. Copeia 1953(1):65-66
1991 Kirk, James J. Batrachoseps wrightii Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (506):1-3
1993 Arnold, Steven J., Nancy L. Reagan, and Paul A. Verrell. Reproductive isolation and speciation in plethodontid salamanders. Herpetologica 49(2):216-228
2010 Kozak, Kenneth H. and John J. Wiens. Accelerated rates of climatic-niche evolution underlie rapid species diversification. Ecology Letters 13:1378-1389
2014 Highton, Richard. Detecting cryptic species in phylogeographic studies: Speciation in the California Slender Salamander, Batrachoseps attenuatus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 71:127-141

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