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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 ...
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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
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 ...
Swift action may be required to save a newt that lives only at Crater Lake and the lake's famously pure waters. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
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 ...
Crater Lake is often referred to as the seventh-deepest lake in the world, but this former listing excludes the approximately 3,000-foot (910 m) depth of subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica, which resides under nearly 13,000 feet (4,000 m) of ice, and the recent report of a 2,740-foot (840 m) maximum depth for Lake O'Higgins/San Martin ...
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." [20] [22]