Slimy Salamander
(Plethodon
glutinosus) |
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DESCRIPTION: 4 1/2-8 1/8"
(11.4-20.6 cm). Usually shiny black with large white, gray, or
yellow spots on sides and scattered smaller silvery white spots
and/or brassy flecks atop head, back, and tail. Throat dark.
Belly slate colored. Slimy's skin glands secrete a gluey
substance that is next to impossible to remove from the fingers.
STATUS:
RANGE: Central and west
New York south to West Virginia, east Tennessee, central Georgia
and east Alabama; west to Illinois and west Kentucky; isolated
population in south New Hampshire.
HABITAT: Shaded ravine slopes,
shale banks, wooded floodplains, cave entrances; near sea level
to 5,500' (1,676 m).
SPECIAL HABITAT: Appears at the surface in
early spring and, except during summer dry spells, can be found
under flat rocks and rotten logs until the onset of sub-freezing
temperatures in fall.
FOOD: invertebrate's |
