CAUDATA - Salamanders
Collecting information from the Southeast ARMI index sites
is a long term effort and particularly complex with regards
to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park species. New
descriptions and images will be added as they are completed.
 

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 Mole Salamanders - Ambystomatidae

Lungless Salamanders - Plethodontidae

Flatwoods Salamander - Ambystoma cingulatum

Southern Dusky Salamander - Desmognathus auriculatus

Marbled Salamander - Ambystoma opacum

Southern Two-lined Salamander - Eurycea cirrigera

Mole Salamander - Ambystoma talpoideum

Dwarf Salamander - Eurycea quadridigitata

Eastern Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum

Many-lined Salamander - Stereochilus marginatus

Amphiumas - Amphiumidae

Sirens - Sirenidae

Two-toed Amphiuma - Amphiuma means

Southern Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus axanthus

Northern Dwarf Siren - Pseudobranchus striatus

Newts - Salamandridae

Lesser Siren - Siren intermedia

Peninsula Newt - Notophthalmus viridescens

Greater Siren - Siren lacertina

Glossary of Useful Herpetological Terms

Reference List

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Carr, A.F., Jr. 1940. A contribution to the herpetology of Florida. University of Florida Publication, Biological Science Series 3(1):1-118.

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Wright, A.H. 1932. Life-histories of the Frogs of the Okefinokee Swamp, Georgia. The MacMillan Co., New York. 497 pp.

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