Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

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, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 22; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31).

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.

Comment

Highton, 2000, in Bruce et al., Biol. Plethodontid Salamanders: 228, suggested that two species masquerade under this name. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 163-164, provided a brief account, figure, and map. 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.

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