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Pacific giant salamander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The northern species became Dicamptodon tenebrosus, the southern species became Dicamptodon ensatus - California Giant Salamander, and the eastern species became Dicamptodon aterrimus - Idaho Giant Salamander.
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The southern species became Dicamptodon ensatus - California Giant Salamander, the northern species became Dicamptodon tenebrosus - Coastal Giant Salamander, and the eastern species became Dicamptodon aterrimus - Idaho Giant Salamander.
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1. Historical versus Current Distribution. California giant salamanders (Dicamptodon ensatus) are the southernmost taxa of four species in the genus (Good, 1989). They occur in the Pacific Coastal region around San Francisco Bay north to Mendocino, Sonoma, and Napa counties, and south to Santa Cruz County. A...
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Dicamptodon tenebrosus (Baird and Girard, 1852[b]); Coastal Giant Salamander ... Coastal giant salamanders (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) occur from Mendocino County, California, north to extreme southwestern British Columbia, Canada, along the Coast and Cascade Ranges, exclusive of the Olympic Peninsula (Nussbaum, 1976;
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Home Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Subphylum Vertebrata Class Amphibia Order Caudata Family Dicamptodontidae Species Dicamptodon ensatus...
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Dicamptodon tenebrosus ... Dicamptodon Ruiz-Carranza & Lynch, 1991 ... Amphibian Species of the World 5.2 Dicamptodon access date 26 July 2008...
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Digital Morphology account of the Pacific giant salamander, Dicamptodon ensatus, featuring CT-generated animations of the skull ... The Pacific Giant Salamander, Dicamptodon ensatus, and its close relatives, are the largest and most massive of the salamanders that have a terrestrial stage.
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Range USA: Washington, Oregon, and south to northern Sonoma County in California; Canada: Southwest British Columbia ... IUCN Red Book Least concern ... CITES No listing...
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This species was shown to be genetically distinct from Dicamptodon ensatus by Good, 1989, Evolution, 43: 728-744, who found a narrow hybrid zone between ...
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