#plethodon

[herpsandbirds]

Northern Ravine Salamander (Plethodon electromorphus), family Plethodontidae, WV, USA

photograph by Frank Gebhard

[snototter]

A northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) in Sussex County, NJ, USA

by Alex Roukis

[fivetrench]

WHYYYY ARE YOU SO DAMN SMALLL !!!!!!!!

[caudatart]

salamander women are in your area (red-legged salamander, plethodon shermani)

[vyva-melinkolya]

Northern Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus)

[himbomantes]

The Vandyke's salamander (Plethodon vandykei) is a washington endemic species living near cold mountainous streams and waterfall splash zones.

Salamanders in the family Plethodontidae are called lungless salamanders due to them breathing through their skin rather than lungs. They depend on moisture to be able to breath so they're even more delicate than most amphibians.

Of the almost 800 species of salamanders ~400 of them are apart of the family Plethodontidae with all of them being in the America's besides 8 species. Many of these species are at risk of extinction because of the delicate habitat they can inhabit.

I just really love these dudes and want more people to be able to appreciate them like :)

[stranger-nature]

Some of the cool non-bird animals I've been seeing in West Virginia.

White-spotted Slimy Salamander (Plethodon cylindraceus)

Red-spotted Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens)

[pterouras]

Two amphibians! A salamander, Plethodon cinereus, and a toad, Anaxyrus americanus. P. cinereus is the only member of its genus found this far up north in eastern Maine. A. americanus seemed common in and around the coastal spruce forests too, saw a couple of them.