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The Oregon slender salamander (Batrachoseps wrightorum) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. The Oregon slender salamander is endemic to the Northwestern United States. [14] Its natural habitat is temperate forests of moist Douglas fir, maple, and red cedar woodlands in Oregon, to 3,000 feet (910 m). [14]
A rough-skinned newt underwater A rough-skinned newt at Brice Creek in Oregon. Throughout much of the newt's range, the common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) has been observed to exhibit resistance to the tetrodotoxin produced in the newt's skin. While in principle the toxin binds to a tube-shaped protein that acts as a sodium channel in ...
Taricha newts can be lethal to humans if ingested, and at least one human fatality occurred in Oregon from eating a rough-skinned newt. Eastern newts of the genus Notophthalmus (= Diemictylus of earlier authors) also secrete tetrodotoxin, but in lesser amounts.
The Oregon slender salamander (Batrachoseps wrighti) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae from the Northwestern United States. [2] [3] Distribution
The ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii) is a species complex of plethodontid (lungless) salamanders [2] found in coniferous forests, oak woodland and chaparral [3] from British Columbia, through Washington, Oregon, across California (where all seven subspecies variations are located), all the way down to Baja California in Mexico.
These salamanders may be cute, but they can produce slimy, poisonous skin secretions that can irritate the skin or kill a small rodent. ... Spotted salamanders do produce poisonous skin secretions ...
Tehachapi slender salamander: Batrachoseps stebbinsi: Brame & Murray, 1968: Kern County, California Arguello slender salamander Batrachoseps wakei: Sweet & Jockusch, 2021: Santa Barbara County, California Oregon slender salamander: Batrachoseps wrighti (Bishop, 1937) Oregon
The northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile) is a species of mole salamander that inhabits the northwest Pacific coast of North America. These fairly large salamanders grow to 8.7 in (220 mm) in length. It is found from southeastern Alaska on May Island, through Washington and Oregon south to the mouth of the Gualala River, Sonoma County ...