Three-lined salamander
| Three-lined salamander | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Caudata |
| Family: | Plethodontidae |
| Genus: | Eurycea |
| Species: | E. guttolineata |
| Binomial name | |
| Eurycea guttolineata (Holbrook, 1838) | |
The three-lined salamander (Eurycea guttolineata) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.
Distribution
The species is endemic to the Southeastern United States. It can be found in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia and Tennessee south though the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the Gulf Coast, including eastern Louisiana and western Florida.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, freshwater springs, and canals and ditches.
It is threatened by habitat loss.
References
- Hammerson, G. 2004. Eurycea guttolineata. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 November 2008
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