Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference

Ranodon olympicus Gaige, 1917, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 40: 2. Holotype: UMMZ 48607, by original designation; this was corrected to UMMZ 48608 by Peters, 1952, Occas. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 539: 9; Kluge, 1983, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, 166: 21, disagreed with Peters and reaffirmed that UMMZ 48607 is the holotype. Type locality: "Lake Cushman, [Olympic Mountains,] Washington", USA.

Rhyacotriton olympicus — Dunn, 1920, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 7: 56.

Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus — Stebbins and Lowe, 1951, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 50: 465.

English Names

Mountain Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17),

Olympic Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: Slevin, 1928, Occas. Pap. California Acad. Sci., 16: 39; Bishop, 1943, Handb. Salamanders: 178; Stebbins, 1951, Amph. W. North Am.: 55; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 36; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9),

Olympic Torrent Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus: Collins, 1997, Herpetol. Circ., 25: 9; 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: 162; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2008, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 37: 22; Collins and Taggart, 2009, Standard Common Curr. Sci. Names N. Am. Amph. Turtles Rept. Crocodil., ed. 6: 15; Tilley, Highton, and Wake, 2012, in Crother (ed.), Herpetol. Circ., 39: 31).

Olympic Mountain Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus [no longer recognized]: Schmidt, 1953, Check List N. Am. Amph. Rept., Ed. 6: 17),

Northern Olympic Salamander (Rhyacotriton olympicus olympicus [no longer recognized]: Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 175; Stebbins, 1966, Field Guide W. North Am. Rept. Amph.: 37; Collins, Huheey, Knight, and Smith, 1978, Herpetol. Circ., 7: 9; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 34).

Distribution

Cold mountain streams in conifer forest on the Olympic Peninsula in Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, and Mason counties, USA; an isolated population in Thurston county, Washington, USA.

Comment

Literature referring to this binominal previous to the revision of Good and Wake, 1992, Univ. California Publ. Zool., 126: 1-91, may refer to any of the several species. Stebbins, 2003, Field Guide W. Rept. Amph., Ed. 3: 162, provided a brief account, figure, 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: 599.

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