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Yellow-Spotted Woodland Salamander (Plethodon pauleyi)STATUS





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


Diet: Invertbrates


Reproduction: Not Known


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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