Checklist of Amphibian Species and Identification Guide
An Online Guide for the Identification of Amphibians in North America north of Mexico
Order Caudata: Salamanders
- Family Ambystomatidae - Mole Salamanders
- Family Amphiumidae - Amphiumas
- Family Cryptobranchidae - Hellbenders
- Family Dicamptodontidae - Pacific Giant Salamanders
- Family Plethodontidae - Lungless Salamanders
- Family Proteidae - Mudpuppies and Waterdogs
- Family Rhyacotritonidae - Torrent Salamanders
- Family Salamandridae - Newts
- Family Sirenidae - Sirens
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Family Ambystomatidae - Mole Salamanders
- Ringed Salamander - Ambystoma annulatum
- Streamside Salamander - Ambystoma barbouri
- California Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma californiense
- Flatwoods Salamander - Ambystoma cingulatum
- Northwestern Salamander - Ambystoma gracile
- Jefferson Salamander - Ambystoma jeffersonianum
- Blue-spotted Salamander - Ambystoma laterale
- Mabee's Salamander - Ambystoma mabeei
- Long-toed Salamander -
Ambystoma macrodactylum
- Eastern Long-toed Salamander - Ambystoma macrodactylum columbianum
- Santa Cruz Long-toed Salamander - Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum
- Northern Long-toed Salamander - Ambystoma macrodactylum krausei
- Western Long-toed Salamander - Ambystoma macrodactylum macrodactylum
- Southern Long-toed Salamander - Ambystoma macrodactylum sigillatum
- Spotted Salamander - Ambystoma maculatum
- Marbled Salamander - Ambystoma opacum
- Mole Salamander - Ambystoma talpoideum
- Small-mouthed Salamander - Ambystoma texanum
- Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma
tigrinum
- Gray Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum diaboli
- Barred Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium
- Blotched Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum melanostictum
- Arizona Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum
- Sonoran Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi
- Eastern Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum
Family Amphiumidae - Amphiumas
- Two-toed Amphiuma - Amphiuma means
- One-toed Amphiuma - Amphiuma pholeter
- Three-toed Amphiuma - Amphiuma tridactylum
Family Cryptobranchidae - Hellbenders
- Hellbender - Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
- Eastern Hellbender - Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis
- Ozark Hellbender - Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi
Family Dicamptodontidae - Pacific Giant Salamanders
- Idaho Giant Salamander - Dicamptodon aterrimus
- Cope's Giant Salamander - Dicamptodon copei
- California Giant Salamander - Dicamptodon ensatus
- Coastal (Pacific) Giant Salamander - Dicamptodon tenebrosus
Family Plethodontidae - Lungless Salamanders
- Climbing Salamanders - Genus Aneides
- Green Salamander - Aneides aeneus
- Clouded Salamander - Aneides ferreus
- Black Salamander - Aneides flavipunctatus
- Speckled Black Salamander - Aneides flavipunctatus flavipunctatus
- Santa Cruz Black Salamander - Aneides flavipunctatus niger
- Sacramento Mountain Salamander - Aneides hardii
- Arboreal Salamander - Aneides lugubris
- Wandering Salamander - Aneides vagrans
- Slender Salamanders - Genus Batrachoseps
- California Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps attenuatus
- Inyo Mountains Salamander - Batrachoseps campi
- Hell Hollow Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps diabolicus
- San Gabriel Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps gabrieli
- Gregarious Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps gregarius
- Sequoia Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps kawia
- Garden Slender Salamander
- Batrachoseps major
- Desert Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps major aridus
- Garden Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps major major
- Black-bellied Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps nigriventris
- Channel Islands Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps pacificus
- Kings River Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps regius
- Relictual Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps relictus
- Kern Canyon Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps simatus
- Tehachapi Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps stebbinsi
- Oregon Slender Salamander - Batrachoseps wrighti
- Dusky Salamanders - Genus Desmognathus
- Seepage Salamander - Desmognathus aeneus
- Apalachicola Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus apalachicolae
- Southern Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus auriculatus
- Ouachita Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus brimleyorum
- Carolina Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus carolinensis
- Spotted Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus conanti (formerly D. fuscus conanti)
- Northern Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus fuscus
- Imitator Salamander - Desmognathus imitator
- Shovel-nosed Salamander - Desmognathus (formerly Leurognathus) marmoratus
- Seal Salamander - Desmognathus monticola
- (Allegheny) Mountain Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus ochrophaeus
- Ocoee Salamander - Desmognathus ocoee
- Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus orestes
- Black-bellied Salamander - Desmognathus quadramaculatus
- Santeetlah Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus santeetlah
- Black Mountain Salamander - Desmognathus welteri
- Pigmy Salamander - Desmognathus wrighti
- Ensatinas - Ensatina
eschscholtzii
- Yellow-blotched Ensatina - Ensatina eschscholtzii croceater
- Monterey Ensatina - Ensatina eschscholtzii eschscholtzii
- Large-blotched Ensatina - Ensatina eschscholtzii klauberi
- Oregon Ensatina - Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis
- Painted Ensatina - Ensatina eschscholtzii picta
- Sierra Nevada Ensatina - Ensatina eschscholtzii platensis
- Yellow-eyed Ensatina - Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica
- Brook Salamanders - Genus Eurycea
- Northern Two-lined Salamander - Eurycea bislineata
- Chisholm Trail Salamander - Eurycea chisholmensis
- Southern Two-lined Salamander - Eurycea cirrigera
- Three-lined Salamander - Eurycea guttolineata
- Junaluska Salamander - Eurycea junaluska
- Cascade Cavern Salamander - Eurycea latitans
- Long-tailed Salamander
- Eurycea longicauda
- Long-tailed Salamander - Eurycea longicauda longicauda
- Dark-sided Salamander - Eurycea longicauda melanopleura
- Cave Salamander - Eurycea lucifuga
- Many-ribbed Salamander - Eurycea multiplicata
- Gray-bellied Salamander - Eurycea multiplicata griseogaster
- Many-ribbed Salamander - Eurycea multiplicata multiplicata
- San Marcos Salamander - Eurycea nana
- Georgetown Salamander - Eurycea naufragia
- Texas Salamander - Eurycea neotenes
- Fern Bank Salamander - Eurycea pterophila
- Dwarf Salamander - Eurycea quadridigitata
- Texas Blind Salamander - Eurycea rathbuni
- Blanco Blind Salamander - Eurycea robusta
- Barton Springs Salamander - Eurycea sosorum
- Jollyville Plateau Salamander - Eurycea tonkawae
- Comal Blind Salamander - Eurycea tridentifera
- Valdina Farms Salamander - Eurycea troglodytes
- Oklahoma Salamander - Eurycea tynerensis
- Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander - Eurycea wilderae
- Spring Salamanders - Genus Gyrinophilus
- Berry Cave Salamander - Gyrinophilus gulolineatus
- Tennessee Cave Salamander - Gyrinophilus palleucus
- Big Mouth Cave Salamander - Gyrinophilus palleucus necturoides
- Pale Salamander - Gyrinophilus palleucus palleucus
- Spring Salamander
- Gyrinophilus porphyriticus
- Blue Ridge Spring Salamander - Gyrinophilus porphyriticus danielsi
- Carolina Spring Salamander - Gyrinophilus porphyriticus dunni
- Kentucky Spring Salamander - Gyrinophilus porphyriticus duryi
- Northern Spring Salamander - Gyrinophilus porphyriticus porphyriticus
- West Virginia Spring Salamander - Gyrinophilus subterraneus
- Georgia Blind Salamander - Haideotriton wallacei
- Four-toed Salamander - Hemidactylium scutatum
- Web-toed Salamanders - Genus Hydromantes
- Limestone Salamander - Hydromantes brunus
- Mount Lyell Salamander - Hydromantes platycephalus
- Shasta Salamander - Hydromantes shastae
- Red Hills Salamander - Phaeognathus hubrichti
- Woodland Salamanders - Genus Plethodon
- Catahoula Salamander - Plethodon ainsworthi
- Western Slimy Salamander - Plethodon albagula
- Blue Ridge Graycheek Salamander - Plethodon amplus
- Ozark Salamander - Plethodon angusticlavius
- Tellico Salamander - Plethodon aureolus
- Caddo Mountain Salamander - Plethodon caddoensis
- Chattahoochee Slimy Salamander - Plethodon chattahoochee
- Cheoah Bald Salamander - Plethodon cheoah
- Atlantic Coast Slimy Salamander - Plethodon chlorobryonis
- Eastern Red-backed Salamander - Plethodon cinereus
- White-spotted Slimy Salamander - Plethodon cylindraceus
- Northern Zigzag Salamander - Plethodon dorsalis
- Dunn's Salamander - Plethodon dunni
- Northern Ravine Salamander - Plethodon electromorphus
- Del Norte Salamander - Plethodon elongatus
- Fourche Mountain Salamander - Plethodon fourchensis
- Northern Slimy Salamander - Plethodon glutinosus
- Southeastern Slimy Salamander - Plethodon grobmani
- Valley and Ridge Salamander - Plethodon hoffmani
- Peaks of Otter Salamander - Plethodon hubrichti
- Coeur d'Alene Salamander - Plethodon idahoensis
- Jordan's Salamander - Plethodon jordani
- Cumberland Plateau Salamander - Plethodon kentucki
- Kiamichi Slimy Salamander - Plethodon kiamichi
- Louisiana Slimy Salamander - Plethodon kisatchie
- Larch Mountain Salamander - Plethodon larselli
- South Mountain Gray-cheeked Salamander - Plethodon meridianus
- Southern Gray-cheeked Salamander - Plethodon metcalfi
- Mississippi Slimy Salamander - Plethodon mississippi
- Northern Gray-cheeked Salamander - Plethodon montanus
- Jemez Mountains Salamander - Plethodon neomexicanus
- Cheat Mountain Salamander - Plethodon nettingi
- Ocmulgee Slimy Salamander - Plethodon ocmulgee
- Rich Mountain Salamander - Plethodon ouachitae
- Pigeon Mountain Salamander - Plethodon petraeus
- Cow Knob Salamander - Plethodon punctatus
- Southern Ravine Salamander - Plethodon richmondi
- Savannah Slimy Salamander - Plethodon savannah
- Sequoyah Slimy Salamander - Plethodon sequoyah
- Southern Red-backed Salamander - Plethodon serratus
- Shenandoah Salamander - Plethodon shenandoah
- Red-legged Salamander - Plethodon shermani
- Siskiyou Mountains Salamander - Plethodon stormi
- Southern Appalachian Salamander - Plethodon teyahalee
- Van Dyke's Salamander - Plethodon vandykei
- South Carolina Slimy Salamander - Plethodon variolatus
- Western Red-backed Salamander - Plethodon vehiculum
- Southern Zigzag Salamander - Plethodon ventralis
- Shenandoah Mountain Salamander - Plethodon virginia
- Webster's Salamander - Plethodon websteri
- Wehrle's Salamander - Plethodon wehrlei
- Weller's Salamander - Plethodon welleri
- Yonahlossee Salamander - Plethodon yonahlossee
- Red and Mud Salamanders - Genus Pseudotriton
- Mud Salamander - Pseudotriton montanus
- Midland Mud Salamander - Pseudotriton montanus diastictus
- Gulf Coast Mud Salamander - Pseudotriton montanus flavissimus
- Rusty Mud Salamander - Pseudotriton montanus floridanus
- Eastern Mud Salamander - Pseudotriton montanus montanus
- Red Salamander - Pseudotriton
ruber
- Blue Ridge Red Salamander - Pseudotriton ruber nitidus
- Northern Red Salamander - Pseudotriton ruber ruber
- Black-chinned Red Salamander - Pseudotriton ruber schencki
- Southern Red Salamander - Pseudotriton ruber vioscai
- Mud Salamander - Pseudotriton montanus
- Many-lined Salamander - Stereochilus marginatus
- Grotto Salamander - Typhlotriton spelaeus
Family Proteidae - Mudpuppies and Waterdogs
- Blackwarrior Waterdog - Necturus alabamensis
- Gulf Coast Waterdog - Necturus beyeri
- Neuse River Waterdog - Necturus lewisi
- Mudpuppy - Necturus maculosus
- Red River Mudpuppy - Necturus maculosus louisianensis
- Common Mudpuppy - Necturus maculosus maculosus
- Dwarf Waterdog - Necturus punctatus
Family Rhyacotritonidae - Torrent Salamanders
- Cascade Torrent Salamander - Rhyacotriton cascadae
- Columbia Torrent Salamander - Rhyacotriton kezeri
- Olympic Torrent Salamander - Rhyacotriton olympicus
- Southern Torrent Salamander - Rhyacotriton variegatus
Family Salamandridae - Newts
- Newts - Genus Notophthalmus
- Texas Black-spotted Newt - Notophthalmus meridionalis meridionalis
- Striped Newt - Notophthalmus perstriatus
- Eastern Newt - Notophthalmus
viridescens
- Broken-striped Newt - Notophthalmus viridescens dorsalis
- Central Newt - Notophthalmus viridescens louisianensis
- Peninsula Newt - Notophthalmus viridescens piaropicola
- Red-spotted Newt - Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens
- Pacific Newts - Genus Taricha
- Rough-skinned Newt
- Taricha granulosa
- Rough-skinned Newt - Taricha granulosa granulosa
- Crater Lake Rough-skinned Newt - Taricha granulosa mazamae
- Red-bellied Newt - Taricha rivularis
- California Newt -
Taricha torosa
- Sierra Newt - Taricha torosa sierrae
- Coast Range Newt - Taricha torosa torosa
- Rough-skinned Newt
- Taricha granulosa
Family Sirenidae - Sirens
- Dwarf Sirens - Genus Pseudobranchus
- Southern Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus axanthus
- Narrow-striped Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus axanthus axanthus
- Everglades Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus axanthus belli
- Northern Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus striatus
- Gulf Hammock Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus striatus lustricolus
- Slender Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus striatus spheniscus
- Broad-striped Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus striatus striatus
- Southern Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus axanthus
- Sirens - Genus Siren
- Lesser Siren - Siren intermedia
- Eastern Lesser Siren - Siren intermedia intermedia
- Western Lesser Siren - Siren intermedia nettingi
- Greater Siren - Siren lacertina
- Lesser Siren - Siren intermedia
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Anura: Frogs and Toads - by Family / by Species
Caudata: Salamanders - by Family / by Species
Anura: Frogs and Toads - by Family / by Species
Caudata: Salamanders - by Family / by Species
