Biology:Yellow-spotted woodland salamander

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Short description: Species of amphibian

Yellow-spotted woodland salamander
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Plethodontidae
Subfamily: Plethodontinae
Genus: Plethodon
Species:
P. pauleyi
Binomial name
Plethodon pauleyi
Felix, Wooten, Pierson, and Camp, 2019

The yellow-spotted woodland salamander (Plethodon pauleyi) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the United States , where it is distributed throughout the Cumberland Plateau in the states of Kentucky and Tennessee . Its natural habitat is temperate forest. It was long considered to be both an isolated western population and a unique yellow-spotted color morph of the Wehrle's salamander (P. wehrlei), but a study published in 2019 found it to be a distinct species.[1][2]

References

Wikidata ☰ Q65552563 entry