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Plethodon glutinosus (Northern Slimy Salamander; Slimy Salamander)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) is a species of terrestrial plethodontid salamander found through much of the eastern two-thirds of the United States, from New York, west to Illinois, south to Texas, and east to Florida, with isolated populations in southern New Hampshire and northwestern Connecticut. It is one of 55 species in the genus Plethodon and one of the first of its cogeners to be described. The salamander is called "slimy" because it is capable of excreting a sticky, glue-like substance from its skin. It is also sometimes referred to as the viscid salamander, grey-spotted salamander, slippery salamander, or sticky salamander, depending on which source is consulted. Due to its large geographic range, some taxonomic researchers have suggested splitting P. gluti
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
8
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
33
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 17.74
EDGE Score: 2.93

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  8 inches (20.6 cm)
Litter Size [2]  21
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [2]  20 years
Adult Weight [2]  4 grams
Female Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [2]  2 years 6 months

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Parasitized by 
Amphibiocapillaria tritonispunctati[3]
Batracholandros magnavulvaris[3]
Centrorhynchus conspectus[3]
Cylindrotaenia americana[3]
Fessisentis acutulus[3]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
2de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
3Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0