Olympic Torrent Salamander
Rhyacotriton olympicus
(Gaige, 1917)
rai-uh-koh-TRY-ton — uh-lim-puhk-us
SSAR 9th Edition 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);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
Amphibian Species of the World
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1917
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Gaige, Helen T. Description of a new salamander from Washington. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 40:1–3
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1918
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Dunn, Emmett R.. The collection of amphibia of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62:445-471
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1920
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Dunn, Emmett R. Notes on two Pacific Coast Ambystomidae. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club. Cambridge, Massachusetts 7:55–59
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1943
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Myers, George S. Notes on Rhyacotriton olympicus and Ascaphus truei in Humboldt County, California . Copeia 1943(2):125-126
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1951
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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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1968
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Anderson, James D. Rhyacotriton and R. olympicus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (68):1-2
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1969
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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
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2006
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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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