Amphibians > Salamanders
The Long-tailed Salamander (Eurycea longicauda) is an exceptionally slender, vibrant, and agile lungless salamander native to the karst landscapes, cool rocky streams, and deciduous forest ravines of eastern and central North America. Belonging to the family...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Northern Dusky Salamander (Desmognathus fuscus) is an abundant, ecologically foundational, and extraordinarily agile plethodontid salamander native to the cold, clean headwater streams, spring seepages, and rocky forest brooks of eastern North America. Ranging...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Mud Salamander (Pseudotriton montanus) is a handsome, secretive, lungless salamander native to the muddy seepages, spring runs, and forested wetland floodplains of the eastern and southeastern United States. Closely related to the Red Salamander (Pseudotriton...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus) is one of the most extraordinary, specialized, and ecologically delicate plethodontid salamanders of North America. Renowned as the only member of the lungless salamander family (Plethodontidae) in the eastern United States to...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Japanese Fire Belly Newt (Cynops pyrrhogaster) is a world-renowned, toxic aquatic salamander strictly endemic to the freshwater ponds, mountain streams, and terraced rice paddies of Japan. Belonging to the true salamander family Salamandridae, this charismatic...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Spring Salamander (Gyrinophilus porphyriticus) is a large, robust, lungless salamander native to the cold, crystal-clear headwater streams and limestone springs of the Appalachian Mountain highlands of eastern North America. Belonging to the family Plethodontidae,...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Three-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma tridactylum), colloquially known in the American South as the ‘Congo eel’ or ‘ditch eel’, is a colossal, paedomorphic aquatic salamander native to the murky cypress swamps and alluvial bayous of the...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Blue-spotted Salamander (Ambystoma laterale) is an exquisite, secretive mole salamander belonging to the family Ambystomatidae, native to the damp deciduous forests and glacial wetlands of the Great Lakes and northeastern North America. Instantly recognized by its...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Two-toed Amphiuma (Amphiuma means), widely and erroneously known across southern folklore as the ‘Congo Eel’ or ‘Blind Eel’, is a colossal, serpentine aquatic salamander that reigns as one of the largest amphibian species in the Western...
Amphibians > Salamanders
The Alpine Salamander (Salamandra atra) is a remarkable, small-bodied urodele amphibian that represents one of the most extraordinary examples of evolutionary adaptation to extreme montane climates on the planet. Indigenous exclusively to the jagged limestone crags,...
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