Seal salamander
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Plethodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Plethodontinae
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| Genus: | Desmognathus |
| Species: | D. monticola
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| Binomial name | |
| Desmognathus monticola Dunn, 1916
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The seal salamander (Desmognathus monticola) is a
endemic to the Eastern United States.[2]
Distribution and habitat
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]
An introduced population is present in Benton County, Arkansas.[3][4]
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.[1]
Etymology
The genus name
References
- ^ . Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ . Retrieved 26 October 2021.
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- ^ "Seal Salamander (Desmognathus monticola)". Herps of Arkansas. 21 January 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2021.
- ^ a b "Virginia Herpetological Society". www.virginiaherpetologicalsociety.com.
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
