Seal salamander
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| Species: | D. monticola
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The seal salamander (Desmognathus monticola) is a species of lungless salamander that is endemic to the Eastern United States.
Distribution
The seal salamander can be found from southwestern Pennsylvania and south through Appalachian Mountains areas of high elevation in West Virginia, western Maryland, western and northern Virginia, eastern Kentucky, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, western South Carolina, and northern Georgia to central Alabama. There are also disjunctive populations in southern Alabama as well as at the very western end of the Florida panhandle. In the north of its range, it has not been observed north or west of the Ohio River.[1]
Its habitat includes rocky mountain streams, spring-fed brooks in the ravines of deciduous forests, muddy sections of streams and seepages. The total adult population size of the species is assumed to exceed 100,000.
An introduced population is present in Benton County, Arkansas.[2]
References
- ^ a b "Desmognathus monticola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2004. IUCN: e.T59252A11906743. 2004. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
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Further reading
- Dunn ER. 1916. "Two New Salamanders of the Genus Desmognathus ". Proc. Biol Soc. Washington 29: 73-76. (Desmognathus monticola, new species, pp. 73–74).
External links
Media related to Desmognathus monticola at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Desmognathus monticola at Wikispecies
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- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Desmognathus
- Amphibians of the United States
- Endemic fauna of the United States
- Fauna of the Northeastern United States
- Fauna of the Southeastern United States
- Ecology of the Appalachian Mountains
- Cenozoic amphibians of North America
- Extant Pleistocene first appearances
- Pleistocene animals of North America
- Pleistocene United States
- Amphibians described in 1916
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