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Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, freshwater marshes and springs. The black mountain salamander is found in an area of the Appalachian Mountains covering about 20,000 square kilometres (4,900,000 acres). Its range includes eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. It is found at heights varying from 300 ...
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 alpine salamander (Salamandra atra) is a black salamander that can be found in the French Alps, and through the mountainous range in Europe. [2] It is a member of the genus Salamandra . Their species name, atra , may be derived from the Latin ater , meaning dull black. [ 3 ]
The blackbelly salamander is a medium-sized salamander growing to about 10 to 18 centimetres (3.9 to 7.1 in) long. It is sturdily built with a long tail. The ground colour is dark brown or black with two rows of small pale spots along each side of the back. The underside is usually black but may have pale flecks in young individuals. [3]
Wolf dusky salamander Desmognathus marmoratus (Moore, 1899) Shovelnose salamander Desmognathus mavrokoilius Pyron and Beamer, 2022: Pisgah blackbelly salamander Desmognathus monticola Dunn, 1916: Seal salamander Desmognathus ochrophaeus Cope, 1859: Allegheny mountain dusky salamander Desmognathus ocoee Nicholls, 1949: Ocoee dusky salamander ...
A fire salamander's striking black and yellow pattern warns off predators. Skin secretions of the tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) fed to rats have been shown to produce aversion to the flavor, and the rats avoided the presentational medium when it was offered to them again. [50]
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 speckled black salamander (Aneides flavipunctatus), previously known as just the black salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the U.S. state of California. [2] Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss.