Yellow-Spotted Woodland Salamander (Plethodon pauleyi)
Description: The yellow-spotted woodland salamander (Plethodon pauleyi) is one of the most endangered salamanders on the planet. Only 65 yellow-spotted woodland salamanders have been observed in the past twenty years. Only a few hundred yellow-spotted woodland salamanders likely remain.
The yellow-spotted woodland salamander is a slender, purplish-brown salamander with rows of yellow spots that distinguish it from other members of the Wehrle's salamander species complex.
Habitat: It occurs only on shale and sandstone outcrops, which are also targeted by mining companies for their coal seams
Range: The yellow-spotted woodland salamander (Plethodon pauleyi) lives exclusively in coal country, from West Virginia to east Tennessee.
Found in these States:
KY |
TN |
VA
Status: The yellow-spotted woodland salamander will go extinct unless it is listed immediately as an
endangered species and its remaining habitat is protected.
Taxonomy: Two genetic studies in 2018 and 2019 confirmed that the yellow-spotted woodland salamander is a distinct species.
»» Kingdom: Animalia - Animals
»» Phylum: Chordata - Chordates
»» Subphylum: Vertebrata - Vertebrates
»» Class: Amphibia - (Amphibians)
»» Order: Caudata - Salamanders
»» Family: Plethodontidae - Lungless Salamanders
»» Genus: Plethodon
»» Species: Plethodon pauleyi - Yellow-Spotted Woodland Salamander
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