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Ensatina
Ensatina eschscholtzii Gray, 1850

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

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Province/State Distribution:
Canada: British Columbia
USA: Arizona California Oregon Washington

First instance(s) of published English names:
Cape St. Lucas Triton (Plethodon croceater: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Oregon Triton (Plethodon oregonensis: Yarrow, Henry C. 1882. Check list of North American Reptilia and Batrachia with catalogue of specimens in U. S. National Museum. Bulletin of the United States National Museum (24):1-249); Yellow-blotched Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi croceater: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Monterey Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi eschscholtzi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Klauber's Blotched Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi kaluberi: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Northern Pacific Red Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi oregonensis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Painted Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi picta: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Sierra Nevada Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi platensis: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Yellow-eyed Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi xanthoptica: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzi: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185); Large-blotched Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi kaluberi: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185); Oregon Salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzi oregonensis: Conant, Roger, Fred R. Cagle, Coleman J. Goin, Charles H. Lowe, Wilfred T. Neill, M. Graham Netting, Karl P. Schmidt, Charles E. Shaw, Robert C. Stebbins, and Charles M. Bogert. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Copeia 1956(3):172-185);

Taxon Links:

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

Selected References:
1850 Gray, John E. Catalogue of the Specimens of Amphibia in the Collection of the British Museum. Part II. Batrachia Gradientia, etc. Spottiswoodes and Shaw, London. 72pp.
1868 Cope, Edward D. A review of the species of the Amblystomidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 19:166-211
1930 Slevin, Joseph Richard. Further notes on the genus Ensatina in California. Copeia 1930(3):77-78
1948 Gnaedinger, L. M., and C. A. Reed. Contribution to the natural history of the plethodont salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii. Copeia 1948:187-196
1979 Maxson, Linda R., Richard Highton, and David B. Wake. Albumin evolution and its phylogenetic implications in the plethodontid salamander genera Plethodon and Ensatina. Copeia 1979(3):502-508
1986 Wake, David B. and Kay P. Yanev. Geographic variation in allozymes in a ring species, the plethodontid salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii of western North America. Evolution 40(4):702-715
1998 Highton, Richard. Is Ensatina escholtzii a ring species?. Herpetologica 54(2):254-278
1998 Wake, David B. and Christopher J. Schneider. Taxonomy of the Plethodontid salamander genus Ensatina. Herpetologica 54(2):279-298
2010 Reilly, Sean B., Andrew D. Gottscho, Justin M. Garwood, and W. Bryan Jennings. Phylogenetic analysis of common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) stomach contents detects cryptic range of a secretive salamander (Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis). Herpetological Conservation and Biology 5(3):395-402

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