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Larval form

Many were seen in streams that cut through the trail.

Tailed frog tadpole attached to a rock in a riffle.

Attached to rocks in the Copper Creek channel, along the Chilliwack/PNW Trail.

suctioned with mouth onto hands/rocks

Tadpole

Location is approximate--seen at The Brothers base camp.

Found two large frog tadpoles with white spots on the tip of their tails

2 adults under rocks at edge of Austin Creek, 4 tadpoles

Many tadpoles observed

Found in culvert with a few others. Stream mostly gravel & sand near road (last photo). Snails present.

5 larvae found. Maple Creek, trib of Tualatin River, Washington Co, OR.

~20mm TL. This years young.

23mm total length, 8mm body length. 4 other larva of roughly same size found at site.

39mm total length, 14mm body length.

37mm total length, 13mm body length.

46 total length, 16mm body length. 3 others in the 35mm+ TL observed at site.

One of several tailed frog tadpoles found in the area. Many more records for the region entered into www.naherp.com.

Like 5 or so larvae found (1 was quite large). Interior stream of Oregon Coast Range that makes its way into the Willamette (via merging into others creeks/rivers first).

Found 16 larvae at this site. At least 2 cohorts.

Polk County, Oregon. 2 found which were likely different cohorts (only 1 individual in photographs).

Many seen in creek.

In creek.

In culvert.

a first for me! Plentiful and living happily along a stretch of upper creeks draining into the bogachiel river.

In rocky stream in burned. 7/8 were green mottled (other one was brown mottled)

In creek and fairly abundant.

Found in creek.

Found in creek. Most from single rock. This individual is late stage.

Stream tadpole (downward-facing mouth)

Salmonids & crayfish also present in creek. South Fork Peedee Creek, Polk Co, OR.

Creeping onto a rock.

Found by Chris. Dicamptodon also present in stream. Lots of nodules present, especially on tail (likely metacercarial cysts).

With Riley. Night was a misty to light rain. In creek. Many ither larvae seen.

Found in creek of area heavily burnt by wildfire.

Found while sifting through gravel & cobble.

Tadpole

Found in creek.

Tadpole

Tadpole

Found in creek. Toothrows A-1 to A-2 have aberrant gaps. 2nd year larva.

Tadpoles in creek. A little light on the pigmentation.

1st year larva .

Larva

Found in creek.

Larva

In trib. Toothrows P2 & P3 have medial breaks (uncommon).

Found in creek.

Townsend big ear? Inside a natural cave.

Two fledglings and a nest.