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Salamandridae is a family of salamanders consisting of true salamanders and newts. Salamandrids are distinguished from other salamanders by the lack of rib or costal grooves along the sides of their bodies and by their rough skin. Their skin is very granular because of the number of poison glands. They also lack nasolabial grooves.
Adult mole salamanders (Ambystoma talpoideum) and lesser sirens (Siren intermedia), are the top two predators in temporary ponds of the southeastern United States. Siren intermedia competes with and is an intraguild predator of A. talpoideum , limiting its growth and controlling its recruitment.
Siren is a genus of aquatic salamanders of the family Sirenidae. [1] [2] The genus consists of five living species, along with one extinct species from the Eocene Epoch and three from the Miocene. The living species have elongated, eel-like bodies, with two small vestigial fore legs.
Sirenidae, the sirens, are a family of neotenic aquatic salamanders. Family members have very small fore limbs and lack hind limbs altogether. [1] In one species, the skeleton in their fore limbs is made of only cartilage. In contrast to most other salamanders, they have external gills bunched together on the neck in both larval and adult
To find their prey, salamanders use trichromatic color vision extending into the ultraviolet range, based on three photoreceptor types that are maximally sensitive around 450, 500, and 570 nm. [21] The larvae, and the adults of some highly aquatic species, also have a lateral line organ, similar to that of fish, which can detect changes in ...
Bolitoglossa is a genus of lungless salamanders, also called mushroom-tongued salamanders, [1] tropical climbing salamanders, [2] or web-footed salamanders, [3] in the family Plethodontidae. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] Their range is between northern Mexico through Central America to Colombia , Venezuela , Ecuador , Peru , northeastern Brazil , and central ...