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20 Cards in this Set
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Family: Proteidae (Necturidae) |
Mudpuppies and Waterdogs |
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Necturus maculosus |
Common mudpuppies mudpuppies |
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Class and order of salamanders |
Class: Amphibia, Order: Caudata (Urodela) |
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Family: Ambystomatidae |
Mole salamanders - stout bodies, blunt limbs - costal grooves, lack nasolabial |
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Ambystoma jeffersonianum |
Jefferson's salamander -includes blue spotted A. Laterale and hybrids (Jeffersonianum complex) -breed late winter, migrate to temp. pools -adults fossorial -unisexual species |
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Ambystoma maculatum |
Spotted salamander -breed late winter/early spring, migrate to temp pools -fossorial adults |
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Family: Salamandridae |
Newts |
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Notophthalmus viridescens |
Eastern Red Spotted Newt -adults live in lakes, ponds and swamps -egg, larva, terrestrial eft (wandering phase), aquatic adult -rough skin, toxic -tail is round |
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Family: Plethodontidae |
Lungless salamanders -most species rich -450 species -lack lungs (cutaneous) -nasolabial grooves |
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Desmognathus fuscus |
Northern dusky salamander -Family Plethodontidae -rear limbs more robust -keeled tail -streams, seeps, deciduous mixed forests -adults close to water |
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Desmognathus ocrophaes |
Allegheny mountain dusky salamander -Family Plethodontidae -rear legs robust -rounded tail -moves farther from water than n.dusky |
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Eurycea bislineata |
Northern two-lined salamander -Family Plethodontidae -middorsal stripe with small black spots -underside yellow -small streams, deciduous forest -often in populated areas |
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Gryinophilus porphyriticus |
Spring salamander -Family Plethodontidae -largest plethodontid in ny -rocky Brooks, streams, seeps, springs and streams -move to land at night |
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Plethodon cinereus |
Northern Red back -terrestrial -Family Plethodontidae -moist deciduous + mixed -most abundant in ny -coloration varies: redback lead phase, erythyristic (all red phase) -underside salt and pepper |
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Hemidactylium scutatum |
Four-toad salamander -Family Plethodontidae -tail constricted at base -underside white with black flakes -woodlands, swamps, often with sphagnum moss |
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Cryptobranchus alleganiensis |
Hellbender -Family Cryptobranchidae |
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Ambystoma opacum |
Marbled salamander -Family Ambystomatidae |
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Ambystoma tigrinum |
Eastern tiger salamander -Family Ambystomatidae |
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Eurycea longicauda |
Long-tailed salamander -Family Plethodontidae |
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Plethodon glutinosis |
Northern slimy salamander -Family Plethodontidae |
