Plethodon

The videos below show two kinds of salamander, the terrestrial red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani) and the aquatic hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), engaging in their respective feeding behaviors.

David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits David Mizejewski 2011

One sure sign of spring around here is the eastern red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) that I start seeing under the litter in the woods.

Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009

The videos below show two kinds of salamander, the terrestrial red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani) and the aquatic hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), engaging in their respective feeding behaviors.

David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits David Mizejewski 2011

The videos below show two kinds of salamander, the terrestrial red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani) and the aquatic hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), engaging in their respective feeding behaviors.

David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits David Mizejewski 2011

One sure sign of spring around here is the eastern red-backed salamanders Plethodon cinereus that I start seeing under the litter in the woods.

Spring has arrived; the salamander says so AYDIN 2009

The results show that red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus), garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis) and gastropod abundance as well as invertebrate richness (no. of species or higher level taxa) were higher in control than in exclosure plots.

Deer and gastropods revisited AYDIN 2008

First collected in 2003, Karsenia is a small, somewhat robust plethodontid that recalls Plethodon in overall appearance (Min et al. 2005).

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

In the classic morphology-based phylogeny produced by Wake (1966), a basal desmognathine clade is sister to a far larger plethodontine clade that includes Hemidactyliini* (c. 25 species with aquatic larvae, including the genera Eurycea, Hemidactylium and so on), Bolitoglossini (c. 220 species lacking aquatic larvae, including the genera Bolitoglossa, Dendrotriton, Oedipina, Pseudoeurycea and so on) and Plethodontini (c. 55 species lacking aquatic larvae: the genera Aneides, Ensatina and Plethodon).

Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

This small eastern red-backed salamander Plethodon cinereus was also hiding under the leaves.

Yesterday morning in the woods AYDIN 2007

This small eastern red-backed salamander Plethodon cinereus was also hiding under the leaves.

Archive 2007-11-01 AYDIN 2007