Dicamptodon ensatus

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• Common Names
• Description
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• Notes

Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 44 meters (146 feet).[1]

Ecology: Larvae of this species usually inhabit clear, cold streams , but are also found in mountain lakes and ponds . Adults are found in humid forests under rocks and logs , for example, near mountain streams or rocky shores of mountain lakes (Stebbins 1985b). Eggs are usually laid in the headwaters of mountain streams. Breeding typically occurs in water-filled nest chambers under logs and rocks or in rock crevices. [2].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     5.7     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Triton ensatus • Triton ensatus Eschscholtz

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Eschscholtz In: Zool.Atlas,5, 1833.

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Dicamptodon

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:

D. aterrimus (Rocky Mountain Salamander) · D. copei (Cope's Giant Salamander) · D. ensatus (California Giant Salamander) · D. tenebrosus (Pacific Giant Salamander)

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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. 165, p. 7, p. 7.
• A manual of land and fresh water vertebrate animals of the United States (exclusive of birds) by Henry Sherring Pratt. .. Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., inc.[c1935] url p. 139.
• Amphibia and reptiles, by Hans Gadow. 1909 London, Macmillan and co., limited, 1901. url p. 656.
• Amphibian and reptile survey of the Bitterroot National Forest: 1995 / a report to USDA Forest Service, Bitterroot National Forest; submitted by Paul Hendricks and James D. Reichel. Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c1996. url p. 39.
• Amphibian species of the world: Additions and corrections / by William E. Duellman. Lawrence: University of Kansas, 1993. url p. 299, p. 334.
• Biology of New World Microtus / edited by Robert H. Tamarin. [Stillwater, Okla.]: American Society of Mammalogists1985. url p. 558, p. 563, p. 566.
• Brigham Young University science bulletin. 16 1972 Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, [1955-1976] url p. 27, p. 4.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , , , , p. 118, p. 26, p. 4, p. 87.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 93 1943 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 8.
• Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Los Angeles, Calif.: The Academy, 1902-1971. url , , p. 101, p. 119, p. 121.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 114, p. 154.
• 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. 38.
• Check list of the amphibians and reptiles of Canada and Alaska / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1961 url , p. 10, p. 11.
• Check-list of North American Batrachia and Reptilia with a systematic list of the higher groups and an essay on geographical distribution, based on the specimens contained in the U. S. National Museum / by Edward D. Cope. Washington: G.P.O., 1875. url .
• Check-list of the amphibians and reptiles of Canada and Alaska / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1955. url , p. 8.
• Essentials of zoology, emphasizing principles of animal biology. St. Louis, Mosby, 1948. url p. 104.
• Montana wildlife / Montana Fish and Game Department official publication, Information-Education Division. Helena, Mont.: The Division, url p. 26.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. Northampton? Mass., 1950 url p. 327.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url p. 12, p. 13, p. 147, p. 36.
• Postilla. 1960 New Haven, Conn.: Peabody Museum of Natural History, [1950?]-c2004. url p. 10.
• Potential wildlife-highway interactions at select mile-markers along Montana Department of Transportation routes an ArcView GIS analysis / Bozeman, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Management Program, Montana State University, 2001 url .
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 221.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 184, p. 199, p. 56.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 221, p. 617, p. 632.
• Proceedings of the Natural History Association of Miramichi. Chatham, N.B.: The Association, 1899-1901. url p. 50.
• Proceedings of the New England Zoo?logical Club. [Cambridge, Mass.]: The Club, 1899- url p. 39.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 329.
• Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. London: Academic Press, [etc.], 1833-1965. url p. 595.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 13 1875 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 26, p. 89, p. 89.
• Textbook of zoology / by George Edwin Potter. St. Louis: Mosby, 1947. url p. 484.
• The Batrachia of North America / by E.D. Cope. Ashton, Maryland: Eric Lundberg, 1963. url p. 118.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 85.
• The Cambridge natural history, London, Macmillan and Co., Limited;1895-1909 url .
• The Cambridge natural history, ed. by S.F. Harmer. .. and A.E. Shipley. .. London, Macmillan and co., limited;1895-1909 url p. 656.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. 56 1942 Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url logier & toner , p. 138, p. 142, p. 15, p. 215, p. 407, p. 685.
• The chordates. Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1950. url p. 454, p. 833.
• Timber management: a programmatic environmental analysis record for BLM-administered lands in western Oregon / Office, 1974 url p. 66.
• Trematodes of the Pacific Northwest, an annotated catalog [by] Ivan Pratt [and] James E. McCauley. Corvallis, Oregon State University Press[1961] url p. 108, p. 29, p. 38, p. 47, p. 73, p. 91, p. 92.
• University of California publications in zoology. Berkeley: University Press, 1906- url p. 139, p. 202.

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, Bruce Bury 2004. Dicamptodon ensatus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 08, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• Hammerson, G. & Bury, B. 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 March 08, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 25822
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-173743
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 173743
• IUCN ID: 205250
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AAAAH01020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2815

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 157.910 based on 53 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Geoffrey Hammerson, Bruce Bury 2004. Dicamptodon ensatus. 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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