Rhyacotriton cascadae Good and Wake, 1992

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Rhyacotritonidae > Genus: Rhyacotriton > Species: Rhyacotriton cascadae

Rhyacotriton cascadae Good and Wake, 1992, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 126: 15. Holotype: MVZ 90795, by original designation. Type locality: "base of Wahkeena Falls, Multnomah County, Oregon", USA.

English Names

Cascade Torrent Salamander (Good and Wake, 1992, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 126: 15; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 30; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 161; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 163; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 33).

Cascades Salamander (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34).

Cascades Torrent Salamander (Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15).

Distribution

Western slope of the Cascade Mountains from just north of Mount Saint Helens, Skamania County, Washington, south to northeastern Lane County, Oregon, USA.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: United States of America, United States of America - Oregon, United States of America - Washington

Endemic: United States of America

Comment

Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 228, suggested that two species masquerade under this name. Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 434–437, provided a detailed account. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 163–164, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Hayes, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 874–876, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature.See discussion of phylogeography and range by Wagner, Miller, and Haig, 2006, Herpetologica, 62: 63–70. See statement of geographic range, habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 641. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 226, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 131–132, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 496, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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