Woodland salamander

Taxobox
name = Woodland salamanders


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Plethodon teyahalee"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Amphibia
ordo = Caudata
familia = Plethodontidae
subfamilia = Plethodontinae
genus = "Plethodon"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 55 species, see text

Woodland salamanders are lungless salamanders of the genus "Plethodon". They are so named due to their habitat, woodlands, and the fact that they have no aquatic larval stage. Eggs are laid underneath a stone or log and young hatch in the adult form.

pecies

*Caddo Mountain Salamander ("Plethodon caddoensis")
*Red Back Salamander ("P. cinereus")
*Zig Zag Salamanders ("P. dorsalis")
**Ozark Zig Zag Salamander ("P. d. angusticlavius")
**Eastern Zig Zag Salamander ("P. d. dorsalis")
*Dunn's Salamander ("P. dunni")
*Del Norte Salamander ("P. elongatus")
*Fourche Mountain Salamander ("P. fourchensis")
*Slimy Salamanders ("P. glutinosus")
**White Throated Slimy Salamander ("P. g. albagula")
**Slimy Salamander ("P. g. glutinosus")
*Valley And Ridge Salamander ("P. hoffmani")
*Jordan's Salamander ("P. jordani")
*Larch Mountain Salamander ("P. larselli")
*Crevice Salamander ("P. longicrus")
*Jemez Mountains Salamander ("P. neomexicanus")
*Peaks of Otter Salamander ("P. hubrichti"), formerly a subspecies of Netting's Salamander ("P. nettingi")
*Cheat Mountain salamander ("P. nettingi"), formerly a subspecies of Netting's Salamander ("P. nettingi")
*Rich Mountain Salamander ("P. ouachitae")
*White-spotted Salamander ("P. punctatus"), not to be confused with the Spotted Salamander, "Ambystoma maculatum"
*Ravine Salamander ("P. richmondi")
*Scott Bar Salamander ("P. asupak")
*Southern Appalachian Salamander ("P. teyahalee")
*Southern Red Back Salamander ("P. serratus")
*Shenandoah Salamander ("P. shenandoah"), formerly a subspecies of Netting's Salamander ("P. nettingi")
*Siskiyou Mountain Salamander ("P. stormi")
*Tellico Salamander ("P. aureolus")
*Van Dyke's Salamanders ("P. vandykei")
**Washington Salamander ("P. v. idahoensis")
**Coeur D'alene Salamander ("P. v. vandykei")
*Western Red Back Salamander ("P. vehiculum")
*Webster's Salamander ("P. websteri")
*Wehrle's Salamander ("P. wehrli")
*Weller's Salamander ("P. welleri")
*Yonahlossee Salamander ("P. yonahlossee")

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