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Search tool	Example of search string in box	What that means to the database
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	Hyl*	Will find all uses of "Hyl . . ." anywhere in a record: e.g., Hylarana, Hyla, Hylidae, Hylinae, Hylaedactyla.
* = "wildcard". Allows a partial letter string to be entered and implies either no or various extension on this letter string	*Hyla	Will find all uses of ". . . hyla" anywhere in a record: e.g., Hyla, Hylidae, Plectrohyla, Ptychadena hylaea, Adenomera hylaedactyla
Single word	Hyla	Will find all records that contain stand-alone uses of Hyla: e.g., Hyla, Hyla arenicolor
Strings of words without quotation marks	Lithobates pipiens	Interprets this as "Lithobates OR pipiens" so will find the union of all records that contain either "Lithobates" or "pipiens": e.g., Lithobates omiltemanus, Hylorana pipiens
Strings of word with quotation marks	"Lithobates pipiens"	Interprets this as "Lithobates AND pipiens" so will return all records that have the character string "Lithobates pipiens" anywhere within a record: e.g., all members of the Lithobates pipiens complex.
AND statement. Means that the results of the search must include both words held together by an AND	Lithobates AND pipiens	Same as "Lithobates pipiens"
OR statement. Means that the results of the search will all records that have either of the terms held together by an OR	Lithobates OR "Costa Rica"	Recovers all records that contain the word "Lithobates" or "Costa Rica": 402 records inasmuch as this will include all records for the entire amphibian fauna of Costa Rica
Combining Boolean operators within the Basic Search box (AND, OR, NOT, quotation marks)	Lithobates AND "Costa Rica" NOT forreri	Recovers only records that contain the word Lithobates AND "Costa Rica", but excludes any record that contains the word "forreri" in any part of the record: 9 records
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Taricha granulosa (Skilton, 1849)

Class: Amphibia > Order: Caudata > Family: Salamandridae > Subfamily: Pleurodelinae > Genus: Taricha > Species: Taricha granulosa

Salamandra (Triton) granulosa Skilton, 1849, Am. J. Sci. Arts, Ser. 2, 7: 202. Type(s): Not known to exist, originally two or more specimens in the "Cabinet of A.J. Skilton, and of the Troy Lyceum of Natural History". Type locality: "Oregon"; restricted to near "Oregon City", Clackamas County, Oregon, USA, by Fitch, 1938, Copeia, 1938: 149.

Triturus granulosus — Twitty, 1935, Copeia, 1935: 76.

Triturus similans Twitty, 1935, Copeia, 1935: 76. Holotype: MVZ 18149, by original designation. Type locality: "Robinson Creek, Ukiah, [Mendocino County,] California", USA. Synonymy by Fitch, 1938, Copeia, 1938: 149; Riemer, 1958, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 56: 385–386; and Pimentel, 1959, Herpetologica, 15: 13.

Triturus granulosus granulosus — Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 18.

Triturus granulosus twittyi Bishop, 1941, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 451: 16. Holotype: UMMZ 89763, by original designation. Type locality: "Saratoga, [Santa Clara County,] California", USA. Subspecies distinction from Taricha granulosa granulosa rejected by Riemer, 1958, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 56: 385–386.

Triturus granulosus similans — Myers, 1942, Copeia, 1942: 79.

Triturus granulosus mazamae Myers, 1942, Copeia, 1942: 80. Holotype: CAS-SU 7465, by original designation. Type locality: "near Crater Lake on the higher slopes of Mount Mazama, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County, Oregon", USA.

Triturus granulosus mazamae — Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 74.

Taricha granulosa — Wahlert, 1952, Copeia, 1952: 30; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26.

Taricha granulosa granulosa — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26.

Taricha granulosa mazamae — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26.

Taricha granulosa similans — Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 27.

Taricha torosa granulosa — Pimentel, 1958, Herpetologica, 14: 168.

Taricha torosa mazamae — Pimentel, 1958, Herpetologica, 14: 168.

Taricha torosa twittyi — Pimentel, 1958, Herpetologica, 14: 168.

Taricha torosa simulans — Pimentel, 1958, Herpetologica, 14: 168. Incorrect subsequent spelling of the subspecies name.

Taricha (Taricha) granulosa — Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009, Alytes, 26: 67.

Taricha (Taricha) granulosa granulosa — Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 176.

Taricha (Taricha) granulosa mazamae — Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 176.

Common Names

Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 38; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31; Highton, Bonett, and Jockusch, 2017, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 43: 34).

Rough-skin Newt (Triturus granulosus: Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 14).

Roughskin Newt (Taricha granulosa: Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 10; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15).

Oregon Newt (Triturus granulosa granulosa: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 70).

Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa granulosa: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26).

Northern Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa granulosa: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175).

Northern Roughskin Newt (Taricha granulosa granulosa: Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 38; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 10; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15).

Crater Lake Newt (Taricha granulosa mazamae: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 74; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 38; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 36; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 10; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15).

Twitty's Newt (Taricha granulosa twittyi) [no longer recognized]: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 77; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26).

Southern Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa twittyi) [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175).

Mendocino Newt (Taricha granulosa similans [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 26; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175).

Distribution

Southern Alaska through western Canada to California (Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties), in the humid coastal forests; introduced in the vicinity of Moscow (Latah County, Idaho) and Saunders County, Montana.

Geographic Occurrence

Natural Resident: Canada, United States of America, United States of America - Alaska, United States of America - California, United States of America - Oregon, United States of America - Washington

Introduced: United States of America - Idaho, United States of America - Montana

Comment

Reviewed by Nussbaum and Brodie, 1981, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 272: 1–4. See account and discussion of systematics by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 462–469. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 165–166, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Marks and Doyle, 2005, in Lannoo (ed.), Amph. Declines: 894–900, provided a detailed account that summarized the biology and conservation literature. Wiseman, 2009, Herpetol. Rev., 40: 360–361, provided a southern record in the Sierra Nevada of California and commented on the range. Raffaëlli, 2013, Urodeles du Monde, 2nd ed.: 176, provided a brief account by subspecies, photographs, and range map. Altig and McDiarmid, 2015, Handb. Larval Amph. US and Canada: 135–136, provided an account of larval morphology and biology. Raffaëlli, 2022, Salamanders & Newts of the World: 333–334, provided an account, summarizing systematics, life history, population status, and distribution (including a polygon map).

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