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The Cheat Mountain salamander is smallish, similar in size to the red-backed salamander, 3 to 4¾ inches (7½ to 12 cm) in total length (including tail), but is distinct in its black or dark brown dorsum (back) which is boldly marked with numerous small brassy, silver or white flecks. It lacks a dorsal stripe. The belly is dark gray to black.
White Top is also known as the first location where the Cheat Mountain Salamander was identified. This small vertebrate species was identified in 1935 by M. Graham Netting and Leonard Llewellyn. [3] The salamander is found only on Cheat Mountain and adjacent mountains in the West Virginia highlands.
Cheat Mountain is an exceptionally high and rugged ridge situated in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It is about 50 miles (80 km) long (north to south) and more than five miles (8 km) wide at its widest.
With 30 identified species, the rainforest is home to the highest diversity of salamanders in the world. [7] Several of these species are endemic to the region, including the black mountain salamander, southern dusky salamander, red-cheeked salamander, and Cheat Mountain salamander. [47]
The Cheat Mountain salamander (Plethodon nettingi) The hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) An adult red-spotted, or eastern, newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) The northern dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus) with egg clutch The eastern American toad (Bufo americanus) The spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) The gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) A female American bullfrog (Rana ...
The Cheat Mountain Salamander which operates out of Elkins. The Mountain Explorer Dinner Train which also leaves from Elkins. The Cass Scenic Railroad which operates from Cass. Five CSR trains are offered - one to Whittaker Station (Friday-Sunday); one to Bald Knob (Wednesday-Sunday), one to Durban (Wednesday-Sunday), one to Spruce (special ...
Cheat Bridge also serves as a stop for the Cheat Mountain Salamander train operated by the Durbin and Greenbrier Valley Railroad. Prior to 2008, the Cheat Mountain Salamander was powered by a railcar that departed from Cheat Bridge. Beginning in 2008, this train is now operated as a regular passenger train departing from the Elkins depot. For a ...
Restoration of two Hurdia victoria...that the Cheat Mountain salamander of West Virginia is the only vertebrate known to be unique to that state?... that the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis either brooded young in its mouth or ate them?