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Rough-skinned Newt
Taricha granulosa (Skilton, 1849)
tah-REE-ka — gran-yoo-LOW-suh

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:
Canada: British Columbia
USA: Alaska California Idaho Oregon Washington

First instance(s) of published English names:
Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa granulosa: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Crater Lake Newt (Taricha granulosa mazamae: Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A Check List of North American Amphibians and Reptiles. 6th Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. 280pp.); Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa: 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 Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa granulosa: 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); Mendocino Newt (Taricha granulosa similans: 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); Southern Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa twittyi: 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:
1849 Skilton, Avery J. Description of new reptiles from Oregon. American Journal of Science and Arts. Series 2 7(20):202
1942 Myers, George S. Notes on Pacific coast Triturus. Copeia 1942(2):77-82
1964 Davis, William C. and Victor Chandler Twitty. Courtship behavior and reproductive isolation in the species Taricha (Amphibia, Caudata). Copeia 1964(4):601-610
1971 Nussbaum, Ronald A. and Edmund D. Brodie, Jr. The taxonomic status of the Rough-skinned Newt, Taricha granulosa (Skilton), in the Rocky Mountains. Herpetologica 27:260-270
1974 Hedgecock, Dennis and Francisco J. Ayala. Evolutionary divergence in the genus Taricha (Salamandridae). Copeia 1974(3):738-747
1978 Garber, David P. and Carol E. Garber. A variant form of Taricha granulosa (Amphibia, Urodela, Salamandridae) from northwestern California. Journal of Herpetology 12(1):59-64
1981 Nussbaum, Ronald A. and Brodie, Edmund D., Jr. Taricha. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (271):1-2
1981 Nussbaum, Ronald A. and Brodie, Edmund D., Jr. Taricha granulosa. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (272):1-4

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