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Shasta Salamander
Hydromantes shastae Gorman and Camp, 1953
hai-drow-MAN-tees — SHAS-tee

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.
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: California

First instance(s) of published English names:
Shasta Salamander (Hydromantes shastae: 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
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1953 Gorman, Joe and Charles L. Camp. A new cave species of salamander of the genus Hydromantes from California, with notes on habits and habitat. Copeia 1953(1):39-43
1964 Gorman, Joe. Hydromantes. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (10):1-2
1964 Gorman, Joe Hydromantes brunus, H. platycephalus, and H. shastae. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (11):1-2
1969 Bury, R. Bruce, Gary M. Fellers, and Stephen B. Ruth. First records of Plethodon dunni in California, and new distributional data on Ascaphus truei, Rhyacotriton olympicus, and Hydromantes shastae. Journal of Herpetology 3(3-4):157-161
1996 Nascetti, Giuseppe, Roberta Cimmaruta, Benedetto Lanza, and Luciano Bullini. Molecular taxonomy of European plethodontid salamanders (Genus Hydromantes). Journal of Herpetology 30(2):161-183
1999 Nardi, Irma, Renata Batistoni, Silvia Marracci, and Benedetto Lanza. Repetitive DNA components of the large Hydromantes genome: Phylogenetic and molecular aspects. Herpetologica 55(2):131-139
2005 Wake, David B., Alfredo Salvador, and Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga. Taxonomy of the Plethodontid Salamander Genus Hydromantes (Caudata: Plethodontidae). Amphibia-Reptilia 26(4):543-548

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