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


Aquatic neotene (aprox 8 inches long) Mason County, Washington		Small Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington

Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington	Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington	Aquatic neotene, Mason County, Washington

Large aquatic neotene, Multnomah County, Oregon

Large aquatic neotene, Multnomah County, Oregon

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

Aquatic neotene, Multnomah County, Oregon		Aquatic juvenile, Mason County, Washington

Habitat

Habitat, Mason County, Washington	Habitat, Multnomah County, Oregon	Habitat, Mason County, Washington

	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

	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.