SALAMANDERS OF TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY

    Pond dwelling (larva) with terrestrial stages for dispersal

Notophthalmus viridescens - Eastern Newt

Ambystoma maculatum - Spotted Salamander (adults fossorial)

Ambystoma opacum - Marbled Salamander (adults fossorial)

Ambystoma talpoideum - Mole Salamander (adults fossorial)
 

    Large River dwelling species without terrestrial stages

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis - Hellbender (fast, high oxygen rivers)

Necturus maculosus - Common Mudpuppy (Waterdog) (slow, low oxgyen rivers)
 

    Lungless occupying fast moving streams (except terrestrial Plethodons)

Aneides aeneus - Green Salamander

Dusky salamanders:

Desmognathus monticula - Seal Salamander

Desmognathus ochrophaeus - Mountain Dusky Salamander

Desmognathus quadramacuatus - Black Belly Salamander

Desmognathus wrighti - Pigmy Salamander

Leurognathus marmoratus - Shovelnose Salamander

Brook Salamanders:

Eurycea bisleneata - Two Lined Salamander

Eurycea guttolineata - Three Lined Salamander

Gyrinophilus porphyriticus - Spring Salamander

Pseudotriton montanus - Mud Salamander

Pseudotriton ruber - Red Salamander

Hemidactylium scutatum - Four Toed Salamander

Woodland Salamanders:

Plethodon cinereus - Redback Salamander (E of French Broad)

Plethodon teyahalee - Southern Appalachian Slimy Salamander (glutinosus complex)

Plethodon jordani - Jordan's Salamander

Plethodon serratus - Southern Redback Salamander (W of French Broad)

(See accompanying PowerPoint Presentation for Images of the above)
 

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