Crater Lake newt

Subspecies of amphibian

Crater Lake newt

Conservation status

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[1]

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Amphibia
Order:  | Urodela
Family:  | Salamandridae
Genus:  | Taricha
Species:  |

T. granulosa

Subspecies:  |

T. g. mazamae

Trinomial name
Taricha granulosa mazamae

(Myers, 1942)[2]

The Crater Lake newt or Mazama newt, Taricha granulosa mazamae, is a subspecies of the rough-skinned newt. Its type locality is Crater Lake, Oregon.[3] Similar newts have been found in Alaska,[4][5] but their identity is unclear.[2]

The Crater Lake newt population is under threat due to predation from crayfish and rainbow trout that have been introduced into the lake.[6]

## References

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1. ^ "Taricha granulosa mazamae. NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
2. ^ a b Myers, G. S. (1942). "Notes on Pacific coast Triturus". Copeia. 1942 (2): 77–82\. doi:10.2307/1439122. JSTOR 1439122.
3. ^ Frost, Darrel R. (2013). "Taricha granulosa (Skilton, 1849)". Amphibian Species of the World 5.6, an Online Reference. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
4. ^ C. Michael Hogan (2008) Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha granulosa), Globaltwitcher, ed. N. Stromberg [1] Archived 2009-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
5. ^ Nate Nelson (2000–2002). "Taricha granulosa Rough-skinned Newt". Caudata Culture. Retrieved 28 May 2013.
6. ^ "2015 OPB Article about the problem". Archived from the original on 2016-08-19. Retrieved 2016-08-19.

Taxon identifiers

Taricha granulosa mazamae|

* Wikidata: Q5182626
* Wikispecies: Taricha granulosa mazamae
* GBIF: 6170228
* iNaturalist: 238784
* ITIS: 208223
* NatureServe: 2.104496

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