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Amphibia    Caudata    Rhyacotritonidae  

Southern Torrent Salamander
Rhyacotriton variegatus Stebbins and Lowe, 1951

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 Oregon

First instance(s) of published English names:
California Mountain Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus variegatus: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Southern Olympic Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus variegatus: 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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iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Selected References:
1920 Dunn, Emmett R. Notes on two Pacific Coast Ambystomidae. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club. Cambridge, Massachusetts 7:55–59
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
1955 Stebbins, Robert C. Southern occurrence of the Olympic Salamander Rhyacotriton olympicus. Herpetologica 11:238-239
1968 Anderson, James D. Rhyacotriton and R. olympicus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (68):1-2
1996 Diller, Lowell V. and Richard L. Wallace. Distribution and habitat of Rhyacotriton variegatus in managed, young growth forest in north coastal California. Journal of Herpetology 30(2):184-191
2006 Wagner, R. Steven, Mark P. Miller, and Susan M. Haig. Phylogeography and genetic identification of newly-discovered populations of Torrent Salamanders (Rhyacotriton cascadae and R variegatus) in the central cascades (USA). Herpetologica 62(1):63-70

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