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Small-mouth salamanders are nocturnal, often subterranean, preferring moist habitats near permanent bodies of water. Breeding occurs in the spring, with groups of salamanders congregating near the water. Females can lay up to 700 eggs, which they attach in small clumps of up to 30 eggs at a time, to rocks or vegetation under the water.
In the lungless salamanders (family Plethodontidae and the clawed salamanders in the family of Asiatic salamanders), no lungs or gills are present, and gas exchange mostly takes place through the skin, known as cutaneous respiration, supplemented by the tissues lining the mouth. To facilitate this, these salamanders have a dense network of ...
Cryptobranchids are large and predominantly nocturnal salamanders that can reach a length of 1.8 m (5.9 ft), though most are considerably smaller today. [1] Despite being aquatic, they are poor swimmers and mostly just walk on the bottom.
This is a list of nocturnal animals and groups of animals. There is also a more specific list of nocturnal birds . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The spotted salamander or yellow-spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) is a mole salamander [2] common in eastern United States and Canada. [1] It is the state amphibian of Ohio and South Carolina. The species ranges from Nova Scotia, to Lake Superior, to southern Georgia and Texas. [3]
The mole salamanders (genus Ambystoma) are a group of advanced salamanders endemic to North America. The group has become famous due to the study of the axolotl (A. mexicanum) in research on paedomorphosis, and the tiger salamander (A. tigrinum, A. mavortium) which is often sold as a pet, and is the official amphibian of four US states.
The Kiamichi slimy salamander (Plethodon kiamichi) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae endemic to the United States, [2] has a natural habitat of temperate forests, and is found over a small range. This nocturnal species is mainly threatened by habitat loss and was first described by Highton in 1989.
The red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) is a small, hardy woodland salamander species in the family Plethodontidae.It is also known as the redback salamander, [3] eastern red-backed salamander, [3] or the northern red-backed salamander to distinguish it from the southern red-backed salamander (Plethodon serratus).