Dicamptodon Strauch, 1870
Dicamptodon Strauch, 1870, Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersbourg, Ser. 7, 16 (4): 68. Type species: Triton ensatus Eschscholtz, 1833, by monotypy.
Chondrotus Cope, 1887, Am. Nat., 21: 88. Type species: Amblystoma tenebrosum Baird and Girard, 1852, by original designation. Synonymy by Hay, 1892, Annu. Rep. Dept. Geol. Nat. Res. Indiana for 1891: 427.
English Names
Pacific Giant Salamanders (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 21; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 17).
American Giant Salamanders (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 28).
Giant Salamanders (Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 5; Nussbaum, Brodie, and Storm, 1983, Amph. Rept. Pacific Northwest: 59; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 6; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 10).
Pacific Mole Salamanders (Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 425).
Distribution
The Pacific coast, from southwestern British Columbia (Canada) to Santa Cruz County, California; northern Idaho, USA.
Comment
Reviewed by Anderson, 1969, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 76: 1-2. Nussbaum, 1976, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 149: 1-94, presented information on morphology and geographic variation. Daugherty, Allendorf, Dunlap, and Knudsen, 1983, Copeia, 1983: 679-691, and Good, 1989, Evolution, 43: 728-744, reported on biochemical evolution within the genus. See account by Petranka, 1998, Salamand. U.S. Canada: 145-156. See comment under Ambystomatidae. Vitt and Caldwell, 2009, Herpetology, 3rd Ed.: 425-426, provided a general taxonomic account as part of a much more general overview. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543-583 (see comment in Amphibia record) as part of a larger study suggested a tree of species.
Contained taxa
- Dicamptodon aterrimus (Cope, 1868)
- Dicamptodon copei Nussbaum, 1970
- Dicamptodon ensatus (Eschscholtz, 1833)
- Dicamptodon tenebrosus (Baird and Girard, 1852)
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