Three-lined salamander
Three-lined salamander | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Amphibia |
Order: | Urodela |
Family: | Plethodontidae |
Genus: | Eurycea |
Species: | E. guttolineata |
Binomial name | |
Eurycea guttolineata (Holbrook, 1838) | |
Synonyms[2] | |
Salamandra gutto-lineata Holbrook, 1838 |
The three-lined salamander (Eurycea guttolineata) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the Southeastern United States.[1][2]
Distribution
The species is distributed throughout much of the southeastern United States.[3] It can be found in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia and Tennessee south though the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the Gulf Coast, including eastern Louisiana and western Florida.[1]
Habitat
Its natural habitats are forested floodplains, ditches, streamsides, and seepages. With wet weather, the species may enter wooded terrestrial habitats.[1]
It is not uncommon in suitable habitat.[1] Some subpopulations have likely been extirpated by loss of bottomland hardwood forests.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2014). "Eurycea guttolineata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN. 2014: e.T59265A64163403. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Eurycea guttolineata (Holbrook, 1838)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
- ↑ "Eurycea guttolineata". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2017. Retrieved 20 June 2017.