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5 unusual facts about Salamander


Blackbelly salamander

The blackbelly salamander spends more time in water than all other members of the genus except the shovelnose salamander (Desmognathus marmoratus).

These include the dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus), the Allegheny Mountain dusky salamander (Desmognathus ochrophaeus) and the seal salamander (Desmognathus monticola).

Greenbrier River

The other salamander, the Cheat Mountain Salamander lives in the mountains of the headwaters.

Sir John Waller, 7th Baronet

During the time in Cairo he founded the Salamander Society with Keith Bullen (poet) and John Cromer and launched Oasis: the Middle East Anthology of Poetry from the Forces in August 1943.

Worth Hamilton Weller

During the summer vacation between his sophomore and junior years at Walnut Hills High School he visited Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina with Dury, where he discovered the first specimens of Weller's Salamander (Plethodon welleri).


2nd Marine Infantry Regiment

Bosnia and Herzegovina: the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment is the last French regiment to be armed and ordered the battalion Franco-Spanish brigade Salamander Mostar.

Anne Mazer

The Salamander Room was a 1993 ABC Children's Choice book and a Reading Rainbow Feature selection.

Austin Creek State Recreation Area

Trout, salmon, newts and salamanders inhabit the area's streams, and Bullfrog Pond hosts sunfish, Black Bass, and bullfrogs.

Cave salamander

Another early scientific description of a cave salamander was undertaken by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque in 1822 while he was a professor of botany and natural history at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

Central Oregon Coast Range

Amphibians include, but are not limited to, rough-skinned newts, northwestern salamanders, Western red-backed salamander, Coastal tailed frog, Coastal giant salamander, red-legged frog, Southern torrent salamander, and Ensatina.

E. nana

Eurycea nana, the San Marcos salamander, a small species of aquatic, lungless salamander species native to the United States

Hermanus Berserik

So he made more than 300 covers and illustrations for books for publishers including Voorhoeve (The Hague), Bert Bakker/Daamen (Ooievaar pockets) and Querido (Salamander pockets, both comparable with the Penguin Books ).

Jeju salamander

The Jeju salamander, also spelled Cheju salamander, Hynobius quelpaertensis, is a species of salamander found on various islands and peninsulas off the southwestern coast of the Korean Peninsula, including Jindo, Geojedo, Jejudo, and Namhae.

John Pelan

Charles Birkin, Jane Rice and R. R. Ryan) and Silver Salamander Press was devoted to new works of modern horror, but all three have been inactive since 2006.

Junaluska salamander

The Junaluska salamander (Eurycea junaluska) was first described by David M. Sever, who found the species in the range from the Cheoah River, Santeetlah Creek, and Tululah Creek in Graham County of North Carolina.

Leonard R. Brand

Geologist Martin Lockley describes Brand's Salamander trackway study as "seriously flawed" and notes that Brand links the underwater tracks theory to the idea that the whole Grand Canyon was entirely formed by a catastrophic, biblical-style flood, a view which Lockley calls geologically naive and disingenuous.

Northern slimy salamander

The northern slimy salamander, Plethodon glutinosus, is a species of terrestrial plethodontid salamander found through much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States, from New York, west to Illinois, south to Texas, and east to Florida, with isolated populations in southern New Hampshire and northwestern Connecticut.

O. uniformis

Oedipina uniformis, a salamander species found in Costa Rica and possibly Panama

Otomedius

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P. rex

Pseudoeurycea rex, a salamander species found mostly in Guatemala and Mexico

Peaks of Otter salamander

The Peaks of Otter salamander (Plethodon hubrichti) is a species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family, endemic to the Peaks of Otter area in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Prosalirus

Prosalirus bitis is the name given to a fossil frog found in Arizona in 1981 by Farish Jenkins, which has primitive features, but has mostly lost the salamander-like traits of its ancestors.

Rich Mountain salamander

The Rich Mountain salamander was first collected at Rich Mountain east of Page, Oklahoma in the Ouachita Mountains.

Robert Atherton Edwin

He also served in the Pacific in the Elk, and on HMS Salamander and HMS Falcon on the Australia Station.

Salamander Dream

Salamander Dream (ISBN 0-9721794-9-6) is an original graphic novel by Hope Larson, her first, released by AdHouse Books in 2005.

Salamander of Leith

In Leith the Salamander is commemorated by the name of Salamander Street, which runs east from Leith along the old shore line, and Salamander Place leading south to Leith Links.

Santa Cruz long-toed salamander

On December 2, 1954, the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander was discovered in Valencia Lagoon by R.W. Russell and James Anderson.

Scott Bar salamander

It was discovered in 2001, and is currently known from a few locations near the confluence of the Klamath and Scott Rivers, hence its common name Scott Bar salamander.

Small-mouth salamander

The small-mouth salamander (Ambystoma texanum) is a species of mole salamander found in the central United States, from the Great Lakes region in Michigan to Nebraska, south to Texas, and east to Tennessee, with a population in Canada, in Pelee, Ontario.

Tarahumara salamander

The Tarhumara salamander may actually be two different species separated by the Sierra Madre Occidentental in northwestern Mexico.

W.W.S.1 Salamandra

The W.W.S. 1 Salamandra (Salamander) was a single-seat training glider designed and built in Poland from Autumn 1935.


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