Several newspaper websites are reporting the discovery of a new salamander species, the Scott Bar salamander, Plethodon asupak. [view article from the Times-Standard] [view article from the San Diego Union Tribune] The species was found in a small area on the California-Oregon border and differs genetically from other plethodontid species found in the area (Siskiyou Mountains salamander and the Del Norte salamander). The details of the discovery were published in the Herpetologica and can be found online.