Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Siredon gracilis Baird, 1859 "1857", Rep. Upon Explor Surv. Route Railroad Mississippi-Pacific Ocean, 10 (Part 4, No. 4): 13. Syntypes: USNM 4080 (2 larval specimens) according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 25. Type locality: "Cascade Mountains, near latitude 40° [N.]", Oregon, USA. Given as "Cascade Mountains, Oregon, latitude 44° [N.]", USA, by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 25.

Amblystoma paroticum Baird In Cope, 1868 "1867", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 19: 200. Holotype: USNM 4708 according to Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 151; the noting of syntypes (4708a [2 specimens]) by Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 5, is in error. Type locality: "Chiloweyuck, W[ashington]. T[erritory]" (= Chilliwack Lake, British Columbia, Canada). Synonymy by Dunn, 1926, Copeia, 154: 135-136; Dunn, 1944, Copeia, 1944: 129.

Amblystoma decorticatum Cope, 1886, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., 23: 522. Holotype: USNM 14493 according to Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 5. Type locality: "Port Simpson, Alaska", USA. Given as "Port Simpson, British Columbia, Canada" by Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 126, and Cochran, 1961, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 220: 5. Synonymy by Dunn, 1944, Copeia, 1944: 129-130.

Chondrotus paroticus — Cope, 1887, Am. Nat., 21: 87-88. by implication; Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 105.

Chondrotus decorticatus — Cope, 1887, Am. Nat., 21: 87-88. by implication; Cope, 1889, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 34: 107.

Ambystoma decorticatum — Stejneger and Barbour, 1917, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept.: 9.

Ambystoma gracile — Dunn, 1926, Copeia, 154: 136.

Ambystoma gracile gracile — Dunn, 1944, Copeia, 1944: 129.

Ambystoma gracile decorticatum — Dunn, 1944, Copeia, 1944: 129-130.

Ambystoma (Ambystoma) gracile — Tihen, 1958, Bull. Florida State Mus., Biol. Sci., 3: 3, 39.

English Names

Vancouver's Salamander (Ambystoma paroticum [no longer recognized]: Yarrow, 1882, Bull. U.S. Natl. Mus., 24: 21).

British Columbia Salamander (Ambystoma paroticum [no longer recognized]: Storer, 1925, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 27: 42).

Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma paroticum [no longer recognized]: Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 26).

Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma gracile: Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 128; Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 21; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 173; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 34; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 4; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 27; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 5; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 18; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 155; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 13; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 10; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 23).

Oregon Salamander (Ambystoma gracile gracile [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17), Brown Salamander (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 173; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 34; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 4).

British Columbia Salamander (Ambystoma gracile decorticatum) [no longer recognized]: Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 28; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 126; Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 173; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 34; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 4).

Distribution

Southeastern Alaska (Chichagot Island) south through western British Columbia (Canada), western Washington, and western Oregon south to the mouth of the Gualala River, Sonoma County, California, USA.

Comment

See account by Snyder, 1963, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 6: 1-2. Titus, 1990, J. Herpetol., 24: 107-108, discussed genic variation and relationships among populations and recommended against subspecies recognition. See account by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 53, and brief account, figure, and map by Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 155-156, and Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 93. See Hodge, 1986, Herpetol. Rev., 17: 92, for Chichagot Island, Alaska, record.

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