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The southeastern dwarf salamander grows from 2.0 to 3.5 inches in length. It has a slender body and a long tail. It is typically yellow-brown in color with darker brown blotching and dark stripes down each side, but the pattern and coloration can vary widely. The epithet quadridigitata is to denote that each of its feet has four toes.
Chamberlain's dwarf salamander is a very small species, averaging just 2.5 centimetres (1.0 in) in total length. [6] E. chamberlaini is known to be a lighter brown color than E. quadridigitata (which it is commonly confused with) and has a yellowish underbelly with no spots.
Bog dwarf salamander (Eurycea sphagnicola), found in southern Mississippi, Alabama, and the far western Florida panhandle Index of animals with the same common name This page is an index of articles on animal species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same common name ( vernacular name).
Hillis's dwarf salamander (Eurycea hillisi) is a species of salamander endemic to the southern United States. [3] [4] Taxonomy.
It was described in 1947 but later synonymized with the southeastern dwarf salamander (Eurycea quadridigitata). However, a 2017 study used . In addition, genetic studies indicate that it may be more closely related to the radiation of neotenic Eurycea of the Edwards Plateau in Texas than to the rest of the E. quadridigitata complex. [5] [6]
It is the most divergent of the eastern species in the dwarf salamander complex, having diverged from the clade containing E. quadridigitata, E. hillisi, and E. chamberlaini during the late Oligocene to mid-Miocene, about 23-15 million years ago. [4]
The dwarf black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus folkertsi) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the United States . Its natural habitats are temperate forests and rivers .
Northern banana salamanders are rather small in size when compared to other salamanders in the genus Bolitoglossa such as the O'Donnell's salamander (Bolitoglossa odonnelli) which are longer in length. The northern banana salamander has a robust body with ll costal grooves running longitudinally between its legs and 3 additional costal grooves ...