Eurycea wilderae
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Blue Ridge Two-lined Salamander
It sure is a pleasure to look for salamanders in this part of the world. Everywhere you look, there's a different species! It's much more challenging to identify them than to discover them, in general. But this beautiful species is quite distinctive. This one was under a log in a very shallow stream (pretty much just muck). I also saw another under a log on a small hillside.
Printed references:
- Behler, J. L., King, F. W. 1979. The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles & Amphibians
- Conant, R., Collins, J. T. 1998. Peterson Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians of Eastern and Central North America, Third Edition, expanded
- Crother, B. I. (ed.) 2017. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding, Eighth Edition
- Petranka, J. W. 1998. Salamanders of the United States and Canada