But if you see the tiniest legs you can imagine, capped with four filamentous toes, you’ve met a California slender salamander (Batrachoseps attenuatus). It’s under there because the moisture helps ...

Apodaca had an advantage in his search. He was among a group of scientists who first discovered the species — a lungless salamander known as the Hickory Nut Gorge green — several years ago.

The Plethodontidae, or lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders. Most species are native to the Western Hemisphere, from British Columbia to Brazil, although a few species are found in ...

Many others have likely been obliterated by mountaintop removal mining. Most remaining yellow-spotted woodland salamander populations consist of only one or a few individuals. This slender, ...

Most remaining yellow-spotted woodland salamander populations consist of only one or a few individuals and are no longer viable. This slender, purplish-brown lungless salamander is distinguished by ...

Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides. As this name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are as mobile up a tree ...

This nocturnal salamander is the largest of the lungless salamanders — amphibians that require a moist habitat to enable their skin to breathe. Growing up to 20 ...