Coastal Range newt [SEP] parent taxon
Coastal Range newt
The Coastal Range newt ("Taricha torosa torosa") is a subspecies of the California newt ("Taricha torosa"). It is endemic to California, from Mendocino County south to San Diego County.
Distribution.
It is native to the California coast, California Coast Ranges, the western Transverse Ranges, and the northern Peninsular Ranges.
Distribution Habitat.
California coastal range newts can be found in coastal areas and coastal range mountains in oak forests, woodlands, or rolling grasslands. In
Lepospondyli
Lepospondyli is a diverse taxon of reptiliomorph tetrapods. With the exception of one late-surviving lepospondyl from the Late Permian of Morocco ("Diplocaulus minumus"), lepospondyls lived from the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) to the Early Permian and were geographically restricted to what is now Europe and North America. Five major groups of lepospondyls are known: Adelospondyli; Aïstopoda; Lysorophia; Microsauria; and Nectridea. Lepospondyls have a diverse range of body forms and include species with newt-like, eel- or snake-like,