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Axolotls may be confused with the larval stage of the closely related tiger salamander (A. tigrinum), which are widespread in much of North America and occasionally become paedomorphic, or with mudpuppies (Necturus spp.), fully aquatic salamanders from a different family that are not closely related to the axolotl but bear a superficial ...
Eurycea neotenes, also known as the Texas salamander, Bexar County salamander, Edwards Plateau salamander, or Texas neotenic salamander, [3] is a species of entirely aquatic, lungless salamander native to the United States. It is endemic to central Texas, near Helotes, in Bexar County.
The internet’s favorite salamander, only found in the wild in Mexico’s Lake Xochimilco, is critically endangered. ... aquatic salamanders ... the Indigenous Mexican language spoken by the ...
New Mexico: New Mexico spadefoot toad: Spea multiplicata: 2003 [15] New York: Wood frog: Lithobates sylvaticus: Proposed in 2015 [16] North Carolina: Pine barrens tree frog (state frog) Hyla andersonii: 2013 [17] Marbled salamander (state salamander) Ambystoma opacum: 2013 [18] Ohio: Spotted salamander (state amphibian) Ambystoma maculatum ...
Four species are categorized as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: the Barton Springs salamander, the Texas blind salamander, the black-spotted newt, and the Houston toad. Furthermore, Texas law protects several native amphibians, designating eleven species as threatened within the state and four others as endangered.
It is endemic to Mexico and only known from its type locality in the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca near Totontepec Villa de Morelos, Oaxaca. [1] [2] [3] The natural habitat of Pseudoeurycea aquatica is cloud forest at about 2,100 m (6,900 ft) above sea level. It lives aquatically in streams, the only plethodontid salamander in Mesoamerica to do so.
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The lesser siren (Siren intermedia) is a species of aquatic salamander native to the eastern United States and northern Mexico.They are referred to by numerous common names, including two-legged eel, dwarf siren, and mud eel.