List of amphibians and reptiles of Olympic National Park

[2][3] The northwestern salamander (Ambystoma gracile) inhabits the northwest Pacific coast of North America.

It is found from southeastern Alaska on May Island, through Washington and Oregon south to the mouth of the Gulala River, Sonoma County, California.

The distribution of the long-toed salamander is primarily in the Pacific Northwest, with an altitudinal range of up to 2,800 metres (9,200 ft).

It lives in a variety of habitats including temperate rainforests, coniferous forests, montane riparian zones, sagebrush plains, red fir forests, semi-arid sagebrush, cheatgrass plains, and alpine meadows along the rocky shores of mountain lakes.

The long-toed salamander hibernates during the cold winter months, surviving on protein energy reserves stored in the skin and tail.

It is a small salamander (up to 10 cm total length) that lives in clear, cold mountain streams.

It is brown above with patches of yellowish-tan covering clusters of white skin glands, its belly is dark bluish-gray.

Habitats of rough-skinned newts are found throughout the West Coast of the United States and British Columbia.

[8] Until 2001, the genus was believed to be monotypic, the single species being the tailed frog (Ascaphus truei Stejneger, 1899).

However, in that year Nielson, Lohman, and Sullivan published evidence in Evolution that promoted the Rocky Mountain tailed frog (Ascaphus montanus) from a subspecies to its own species.

The northern red-legged frog (Rana aurora) is a species of amphibian, whose range is the coastal region stretching from southwest British Columbia to Northern California, and is protected in British Columbia, Oregon and California.

It is found in western United States and possibly Canada, mainly in the Cascade Range and Olympic Mountains.

The northern alligator lizard occurs along the Pacific Coast and in the Rocky Mountains from southern British Columbia through Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana south through Oregon to the coastal range and the Sierra Nevada in central California.

The snake is most commonly found on the edge of meadows, surrounded by forest, as some sunshine is needed for their survival.