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Olympic Torrent Salamander
Rhyacotriton olympicus (Gaige, 1917)

Current SSAR Comments:
There are no current SSAR comments for this taxon.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Mountain Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Olympic Mountain Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Olympic Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: 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); Northern Olympic Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus: 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

Pertinent LIterature:
1917 Gaige, Helen T. Description of a new salamander from Washington. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 40():1–3
1951 Stebbins, Robert C. and Charles H. Lowe, Jr. Subspecific differentiation in the Olympic salamander Rhyacotriton olympicus. University of California Publications in Zoology 50():465–484

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