Hydromantes shastae Gorman and Camp, 1953
Hydromantes shastae Gorman and Camp, 1953, Copeia, 1953: 39. Holotype: MVZ 52314, by original designation. Type locality: "entrance to limestone caves at the edge of Flat Creek Road in the narrows of Low Pass Creek (0.7 miles east of Squaw Creek Road, 18.4 miles north and 15.3 miles east of Redding), Shasta County, California", USA.
Hydromantoides shastae — Lanza and Vanni, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 120. Nascetti, Cimmaruta, Lanza, and Bullini, 1996, J. Herpetol., 30: 161-183.
Hydromantoides (Hydromantoides) shastae — Dubois, 1984, Alytes, 3: 108.
Hydromantes (Hydromantes) shastae — Wake, Salvador, and Alonso-Zarazaga, 2005, Amphibia-Reptilia, 26: 543-548.
English Names
Shasta Salamander (Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 174; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 52; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 7; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 32; Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 7; Crother, Boundy, Campbell, de Queiroz, Frost, Highton, Iverson, Meylan, Reeder, Seidel, Sites, Taggart, Tilley, and Wake, 2001 "2000", Herpetol. Circ., 29: 24; Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 196; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 19; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 13; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 28).
Distribution
Usually in limestone substrate country south of Mount Shasta in the vicinity of Shasta Reservoir, Shasta County, California, USA, 300-910 m elevation.
Comment
Reviewed by Gorman, 1964, Cat. Am. Amph. Rept., 11: 1-2. Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 224, suggest on the basis of allozyne evidence that two species masquerade under this name one of which is more closely related to Hydromantes platycephalus than to its nominal 'conspecific'. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 197, provided a brief account, figure, and map. Raffaëlli, 2007, Les Urodèles du Monde: 319, provided a brief account, photograph, and map. See photograph, map, description of geographic range and habitat, and conservation status in Stuart, Hoffmann, Chanson, Cox, Berridge, Ramani, and Young, 2008, Threatened Amph. World: 577.
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