Coastal Giant Salamander
Dicamptodon tenebrosus
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- D. tenebrosus – Del Norte Co, CA – photo by Gary Nafis
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- Map by Steve Bledsoe, SWCHR
DISTRIBUTION: In our region, Dicamptodon tenebrosus occurs in California from Mendocino County north along the coast to the Oregon Border and east into the Coast Mountain Ranges.
LEGAL STATUS: No Listings
MEANING OF SCIENTIFIC NAME: Dicamptodon tenebrosus (Baird and Girard, 1852)
Genus: Dicamptodon, Greek – di = two + kamptos = curved, bent + odon = teeth — ref. to doubly curved teeth
Species: tenebrosus, Latin = dark, gloomy — poss. ref. color or habitat
Ref. Ellen Beltz 2006
Ref. E. Jaeger 1962