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Dicamptodon (Pacific giant salamander)
Taxonomy
Dicamptodon was named by Strauch (1870). It is extant.
It was assigned to Amblystomidae by Cope (1875); to Ambystomatidae by Haubold (1971); to Ambystomatoidea by Naylor and Krause (1981); to Dicamptodontinae by Estes (1981), Naylor and Fox (1993); to Dicamptodontidae by Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Gao and Shubin (2001); and to Urodela by Skutschas and Gubin (2012).
It was assigned to Amblystomidae by Cope (1875); to Ambystomatidae by Haubold (1971); to Ambystomatoidea by Naylor and Krause (1981); to Dicamptodontinae by Estes (1981), Naylor and Fox (1993); to Dicamptodontidae by Carroll (1988), Frank and Ramus (1996), Gao and Shubin (2001); and to Urodela by Skutschas and Gubin (2012).
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