Description: The body is bluish to black with white to yellow spots on the back, tail, and sides. Chin is light colored. Belly is grayish black. Coastal Plain variation has relatively small spots on the back and yellowish spotting on the sides. They range in size from 4.5 to 8.125 inches.

Habitat: The habitat of this species is presumed to be the same as that for Plethodon glutinosus: Wooded slopes, ravines, floodplains, shale banks, and cave entrances, most often in hardwood forest, sometimes in pinelands. It is generally under or in rotting logs, stumps, or leaf-litter, or under rocks, during the day. It goes underground during dry or freezing weather. It is unclear as to whether or not it is tolerant of habitat disturbance.

Range: This species is found in the Virginia Piedmont and Blue Ridge physiographic provinces of Virginia and North Carolina, west to the French Broad River, and south to the northern Piedmont of South Carolina, and parts of the Valley and Ridge physiographic province of the Appalachian Mountains in western Virginia and extreme eastern West Virginia, and in a small area of the Atlantic Coastal Plain of eastern Virginia.

Found in these States: NC | SC | TN | VA | WV

Diet: The white-spotted slimy salamander is a carnivorous salamander that eats a variety of invertebrates, including: ants, beetles, crickets, earthworms, flies, millipedes, snails, spiders, slugs, and insect larvae

Reproduction: In late summer, females lay a clutch of 6 to 36 eggs in or under logs and among roots. The eggs hatch into larvae in late fall which reach full maturity in about 3 years. Eggs are laid in or under logs and among roots, but are rarely found. In the coastal plain, females lay eggs annually in late summer or fall.

Status: Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution and presumed large population

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