Summary[edit] Description: Yucatán Mushroomtongue Salamander (Bolitoglossa yucatana) Merida, Yucatan, Mexico This is the second time I ever find one of these. The first time I didn't have my camera with me, and I had been trying to find another one like crazy since then! I'm still feeling euphoric :P (That's why I uploaded so many pictures of it..) This salamander is endemic to the Yucatan peninsula. Its legs are suited for climbing, and their tail is usually swollen with fat. They are very tolerant to dry conditions, and they are not very uncommon, but they are not usually seen by people, since they are quite secretive. This and the Bolitoglossa mexicana are the only species of salamanders known in the state of Yucatan. Their belly is blue with white spots. I found this one on a small stick, next to the sidewalk, near a construction area, in which there's still some forest around. It rained a little bit that day, and its hiding spot was a crevice under the sidewalk. Date: 2 December 2009, 10:29. Source: Bolitoglossa yucatana. Author: Maximilian Paradiz from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Camera location21° 01′ 25.13″ N, 89° 35′ 22.02″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 21.023646; -89.589451.
Summary[edit] Description: The Shenandoah salamander is a small, terrestrial woodland salamander found only within the Shenandoah National Park. Salamanders are important, ecologically, because of their predation on insects and other invertebrates, soil aeration and influence on soil dynamics brought about by burrowing, and they are a food source to other forest animals. Their predation on insects also influences ecosystem processes such as decomposition.Like other high-elevation species, this salamander is severely threatened by climate change, which is expected to result in dramatic temperature and moisture changes in the Appalachians. Credit: Matthew Stover, USGS. Date: 8 November 2013, 07:53. Source: Shenandoah Salamander and Climate. Author: U.S. Geological Survey from Reston, VA, USA.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A wild Bolitoglossa yucatana. Found in Merida, Yucatan at night. Español: Una Bolitoglossa yucatana encontrada en Merida, Yucatan durante la noche. Date: 2 December 2009. Source: Own work. Author: Maximilian Paradiz.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Plethodon cinereus Fig. 1 shows a larva freed from its envelopes before killing so that it had straightened out; and fig. 2, an older larva, similarly treated, but which had still retained much of its normal position. In fig. 3 is shown a camera drawing of a section through a stage somewhat younger than that of fig. 1. Fig 3: The mouth (Mo.) leads through the pharynx (PA.) and oesophagus (OEs.) to the stomach (St.), and posteriorly to the latter is a short diverticulum (D.). The small intestine (Int.) is seen to be tubular in its proximal portion, but more distally to pass over into the wall of the yolk-mass (Yk.) Fig. 4 and 5, dorsal portions of cross -sections of the larva shown in its entirety in fig. 1. Int., intestine; Yk., yolk; M. T., metanephroi; V.C., cartilaginous vertebral arches; N.C., notochord; So.A.L somatic mesoderm; S.D. segmental ducts; C. coelom; M., median mesenteries; L., liver; Ect., ectoderm; G.R. genital ridges; So.M., somatic mesoderm; Sp.M., sphlanchinic mesoderm;. Date: 1901. Source: Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr. (1901). "Peculiarities of the Terrestrial Larva of the Urodelous Batrachian, Plethodon cinereus Green". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 53: 503-508. Author: Thomas H. Montgomery, Jr.
Summary[edit] Description: Yucatán Mushroomtongue Salamander (Bolitoglossa yucatana) Merida, Yucatan, Mexico This is the second time I ever find one of these. The first time I didn't have my camera with me, and I had been trying to find another one like crazy since then! I'm still feeling euphoric :P (That's why I uploaded so many pictures of it..) This salamander is endemic to the Yucatan peninsula. Its legs are suited for climbing, and their tail is usually swollen with fat. They are very tolerant to dry conditions, and they are not very uncommon, but they are not usually seen by people, since they are quite secretive. This and the Bolitoglossa mexicana are the only species of salamanders known in the state of Yucatan. Their belly is blue with white spots. I found this one on a small stick, next to the sidewalk, near a construction area, in which there's still some forest around. It rained a little bit that day, and its hiding spot was a crevice under the sidewalk. Date: 2 December 2009, 10:34. Source: Bolitoglossa yucatana. Author: Maximilian Paradiz from Amsterdam, Netherlands. Camera location21° 01′ 25.13″ N, 89° 35′ 22.02″ WView all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 21.023646; -89.589451.