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35 Cards in this Set
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eastern hellbender |
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No external gills
flattened head and wrinkled sides |
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mudpuppy |
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bushy maroon gills |
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two-toed amphiuma |
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No external gills reduced limbs |
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greater siren |
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External gills No hind legs obvious front legs eelish |
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marbeled salamander |
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no nasal labia |
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Jefferson salamander |
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Plainest of salmanders no nasal labia breeds in spring fingery digits |
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spotted salamander |
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2 symmetrical yellow spots |
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eastern tiger salamander |
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chunky dark body restricted to coastal plain |
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red-spotted newt |
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Rugose skin red spots bordered with black |
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northern dusky salamander |
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bordered strips keeled tail line from eye to back of mouth |
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seal salamander |
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Irregular markings keeled tail found in appalanchian mtns line going from eye to back of mouth |
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Allegheny Mountain dusky salamander |
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bordered strips rounded tail line from eye to back of mouth |
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eastern red-backed salamander |
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belly: salt and pepper have nasal grove |
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northern ravine salamander |
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body dark and speckled dark belly throat: moltened with white |
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Shenandoah salamander |
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belly dark light throat only in N. Blue ridge, VA 3 mtns Pinnacles, Stoney Mtn, Hawksbill Mtn |
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Valley and Ridge salamander |
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Dark belly, light throat E. of Allegheny front |
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Shenandoah Mountain salamander |
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3 mtns: Shenandoah, S. Branch, and Nathanial Mtn dark belly |
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Cheat Mountain salamander |
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body: dark speckled white reddish brown tail EVERYTHING DARK ONLY IN WVA |
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Wehrle's salamander |
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belly: gray throat: light (white or blotched white) LIGHTLY SPOTTED WITH WHITE |
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Cow Knob salamander |
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belly: dark throat: white or light body speckled with yellow or whitte markings RESTRICTED TO TWO MTNS: SHENADOAH GREAT N. MOUNTAIN |
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northern slimy |
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belly lighter than body body usually dark |
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four-toed salamander |
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only salmander; belly white with black spots reddidsh brown scrunchy tail lays eggs in sphagnum |
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green salamander |
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northern spring salamander |
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HAS LIGHT LINE FROM EYE TO NOSE vague body pattern salmony color |
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eastern mud salamander |
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dark eye black irregular sep spots E. of MTn |
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midland mud salamander |
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orangish reddush dark eye coral pinker color W of Mtn STUBBIER |
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northern red salamander |
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yellow eye back: heavily spotted chin: flecked with black |
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northern two-lined salamander |
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belly: yellow 2 dark stripes on body |
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eastern long-tailed salamander |
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repeated pattern on tail |
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cave salamander |
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lack of pattern on tail |
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Ambystoma |
no nasal labia groove thicker prom costal grooves mate in vernal pools |
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Amphiumadie |
eelish no external gills small limbs |
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Plethondontidie |
woodland have nasal labia groove front and back legs same size no larval stage in egg DOESNT LAY EGG IN H2O |
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Desmognathus |
Dusky light line from eye to back of mouth rear legs noticebly bigger than front |
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eurycea |
"brook salamanders" long slender yellowish orange Long tail, slender body |
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