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The Crater Lake newt or Mazama newt, Taricha granulosa mazamae, is a subspecies of the rough-skinned newt. Its type locality is Crater Lake, Oregon. [2] Similar newts have been found in Alaska, [3] [4] but their identity is unclear. [1] The Crater Lake newt population is under threat due to predation from crayfish and rainbow trout that have ...
A rough-skinned newt underwater A rough-skinned newt at Brice Creek in Oregon. Throughout much of the newt's range, the common garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) has been observed to exhibit resistance to the tetrodotoxin produced in the newt's skin. While in principle the toxin binds to a tube-shaped protein that acts as a sodium channel in ...
1 language. فارسی; Edit links ... Crater Lake newt; D. Dayang newt; E. Echinotriton; ... Yunnan lake newt This page was last edited on 6 August 2007, at 02:44 ...
Among the park’s wildlife, there is one species you’ll find only in Crater Lake: the Mazama newt, a subspecies of rough-skinned newt more common in the Pacific Northwest, according to the park ...
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Crater Lake — a volcanic caldera lake within Crater Lake National Park, in southern Oregon Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crater Lake . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Crater Lake Institute Director and limnologist Owen Hoffman states that "Crater Lake is the deepest, when compared on the basis of average depth among lakes whose basins are entirely above sea level. The average depths of Lakes Baikal and Tanganyika are deeper than Crater Lake; however, both have basins that extend below sea level." [19] [21]
Crater Lake is called Giiwas in the Klamath language. [7] Steel had helped map Crater Lake in 1886 with Clarence Dutton of the United States Geological Survey. The conservation movement in the United States was gaining traction, so Steel's efforts to preserve the Mazama area were achieved on two scales, first with the creation of the local ...