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privilege of examining California specimens in the United States 
National Museum and for help in many questions of nomenclature the 
present authors are indebted to Dr. Leonhard Stejneger, head curator 
of biology in that institution. For help in the location of certain 
geographic names and for critical assistance in proof-reading we owe 
acknowledgment to Mr. Tracy I. Storer, of the staff of the Museum 
of Vertebrate Zoology. 
According to the present enumeration, there are represented in the 
fauna of California one hundred and sixteen species and subspecies 
of amphibians and reptiles. These fall into forty-six genera, twenty- 
two families, and four orders. 
Class AMPHIBIA 
Order CAUDATA 
Suborder MUTABILIA 
Superfamily SALAMANDROIDEAE 
Family SALAMANDRIDAE 
Notophthalmus torosus (Rathke) 
Pacifie Coast Newt 
OriGiInaL Description.—Triton torosus Rathke, in Eschscholtz, 
Zoologischer Atlas, pt. 5, 1833, pp. 12-14, pl. 21, fig. 15. 
Type Locauiry.—Central California near coast, either at San 
Francisco or between San Rafael, Marin County, and Fort Ross, 
Sonoma County (see Kotzebue’s ‘‘New Voyage’’). 
Synonyms.—Salamandra Beecheyi Gray, Zool. Beechey’s Voyage, 
1839, p. 99, pl. 31, fig. 3 (type from Monterey, Monterey County) ; 
“Triton Ermani Wiegmann, in Erman’s Reise um die Erde, Atlas, 
1835, p. 24’’ [see Wiegmann’s Archive fiir Naturgeschichte, 2 Jahrg., 
2, 1836, pp. 163, 250] (type from California) ; Diemictylus torosus; 
Taricha torosa; Molge torosa; Cynops torosus; Taricha laevis Baird 
and Girard, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 6, 1853, p. 302 (type from 
San Francisco); Triton laevis; Amblystoma rubrum Reid, History 
of Pasadena [California], 1895, p. 600 (type [by inference] from 
near Pasadena) ; [?] Plewrodeles californiae; |?| Triton tereticauda 
Eschscholtz, Zoologischer Atlas, pt. 5, 1833, p. 14 (type from Fort 
Ross, Sonoma County) ; Aneides lugubris, part. 
Common Names.—Western Newt; Warty Salamander ; Water-dog ; 
Capt. Beechey’s Salamander; Pacific Water-lizard; California Newt; 
Sad-colored Anaides, part. 
