Pacific Northwest
Reptiles & Amphibians
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Cope's Giant Salamander - Dicamptodon copei
Nussbaum, 1970
Related or Similar Northwest Salamanders:
Idaho Giant Salamander
Coastal Giant Salamander
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| Aquatic neotene (aprox 8 inches long) Mason County, Washington | Small Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington |
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| Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington |
Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington |
Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington |
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| Large aquatic neotene, Multnomah County, Oregon | ||
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| Large aquatic neotene, Multnomah County, Oregon | ||
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| A very rare fully-metamorphosed terrestrial adult form of this normally neotenic species, found at Spirit Lake on Mt. St. Helens by Robert Stebbins in 1974. © Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. |
Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington |
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| Aquatic neotene, Multnomah County, Oregon | Aquatic juvenile, Mason County, Washington |
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| Habitat, Mason County, Washington | Habitat, Multnomah County, Oregon | Habitat, Mason County, Washington |
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| Habitat, Mason County, Washington. A large adult Cope's Giant Salamander was seen in the pool below the small falls at the bottom of this picture. | ||
| Short Video | ||
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| Some views of an aquatic neotenic Cope's Giant Salamander and its habitat and a second one at the end next to an Olympic Torrent Salamander on the Olympic Peninsula in Mason County, Washington. | ||
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