Torrent salamander
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Rhyacotriton variegatus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Suborder: | Salamandroidea |
| Family: | Rhyacotritonidae Tihen, 1958 |
| Genus: | Rhyacotriton Dunn, 1920 |
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The torrent salamanders or Cascade salamanders are a
one genus, Rhyacotriton. The torrent salamanders have highly reduced lungs and are endemic to the United States in the Pacific Northwest (including northwestern California).[1][2]
Species
The genus Rhyacotriton includes four species:
- Cascade torrent salamander (R. cascadae)
- Columbia torrent salamander (R. kezeri)
- Olympic torrent salamander (R. olympicus)
- Southern torrent salamander (R. variegatus)
Taxonomy
Originally the genus Rhyacotriton was placed in the family
Dicamptodontidae
, and finally in 1992 it was placed into a family of its own. At the same time the only species Rhyacotriton olympicus was split into four species due to genetic analysis.
References
Caudate families by suborder | ||
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| Cryptobranchoidea |  | |
| Salamandroidea | ||
| Sirenoidea | ||
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