Ensatina eschscholtzii

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
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• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 2,147 meters (0 to 7,044 feet).[1]

Ecology: This species can be found in the north: Douglas-fir/maple forests , forest clearings. In coastal areas, redwood forest, chaparral , oak woodland, canyons . Sierra Nevada: pine-oak-incense cedar forests. In dry or cold weather: in caves, underground, in rotting logs . Eggs are laid underground, or under the bark of or within rotting logs (Stebbins 1985), where they develop directly without a larval stage . E. e. klauberi lives in mixed conifer forest and lays its eggs on the ground .[2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     3.8     Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation   
  
•     7     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic)   
  
•     7.1     Caves and Subterranean Habitats (non-aquatic) - Caves   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Ensatina eschscholtzii croceater • Ensatina eschscholtzii klauberi • Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis • Ensatina eschscholtzii picta • Ensatina eschscholtzii platensis • Ensatina eschscholtzii croceater (Cope, 1868) • Ensatina eschscholtzii klauberi Dunn, 1929 • Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis (Girard, 1856) • Ensatina eschscholtzii picta Wood, 1940 • Ensatina eschscholtzii platensis (Jiménez de la Espada, 1875) • Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica Stebbins, 1949 • Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica • Ensatina klauberi Dunn • Heredia oregonensis Girard • Plethodon croceater Cope • Urotropis platensis Jiménez De La Espada

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

This polytypic , ring species includes taxa that form a semicomplex of more than one species.[2].

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ensatina

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. ensatina (Yellow-Blotched Ensatina) · E. eschscholtzii (Redwood Salamander) · E. eschscholtzii croceater (Yellow-Blotched Ensatina) · E. eschscholtzii croceator (Yellow-Blotched Salamander) · E. eschscholtzii eschscholtzii (Monterey Ensatina) · E. eschscholtzii klauberi (Large-Blotched Ensatina) · E. eschscholtzii oregonensis (Oregon Ensatina) · E. eschscholtzii picta (Painted Ensatina) · E. eschscholtzii platensis (Ensatina) · E. eschscholtzii xanthoptica (Ensatina)

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Further Reading

• A check list of North American amphibians and reptiles / by Leonhard Stejneger and Thomas Barbour. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. url p. 13.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 96.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 19, p. 262, p. 272, p. 291.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 114, p. 153.
• Catalogue of the Batrachia Gradientia s. Caudata and Batrachia Apoda in the collection of the British Museum, 2d ed., LondonPrinted by order of the Trustees1882 url p. 54.
• Check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Canada and Alaska / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1961 url p. 84.
• Check-list of the amphibians and reptiles of Canada and Alaska / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1955. url p. 77.
• Evolution: process and product. New York, Reinhold[1960] url p. 267, p. 269.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 170.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 12, p. 13, p. 57, p. 60.
• Point Lobos Reseerve; State Park, California. Interpretation of a primitive landscape. Sacramento, [State Print. Off., 1954] url p. 59.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 200, p. 56, p. 58.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1979- url p. 341, p. 48, p. 58.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 147.
• Proceedings of the New England Zoo?logical Club. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The Club, 1899- url p. 39.
• Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and financial report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the year ending June 30. .. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1933-1965. url p. 91.
• Some account of the amphibians and reptiles of British Columbia / [Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology], 1932. url p. 311, p. 312, p. 318.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 526, p. 624, p. 724, p. 734, p. 739.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 9 1948 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url tanner, page 47.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. 10 1959 Lawrence, University of Kansas. url p. 583, p. 615.
• Zoogeography. A symposium presented on August 26-27, 1957 [under the prime auspices of the Pacific Section of the Society of Systematic Zoology] at the Stanford University joint meeting of the American Institute of Washington, 1958. url p. 171, p. 178.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Geoffrey Hammerson, Gabriela Parra-Olea, David Wake 2004. Ensatina eschscholtzii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Hammerson, G., Parra Olea, G. & Wake, D. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 25831
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-208370
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 173732
• IUCN ID: 207541
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AAAAD04010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1655

Footnotes

1. Mean = 527.020 meters (1,729.068 feet), Standard Deviation = 804.540 based on 92 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Geoffrey Hammerson, Gabriela Parra-Olea, David Wake 2004. Ensatina eschscholtzii. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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