Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Caudata > Plethodontidae > Pseudotriton > Pseudotriton montanus

Pseudotriton montanus (Mud Salamander)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

The mud salamander or mountain triton (Pseudotriton montanus) is a salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is a red salamander with black spots that inhabits swamps, bogs, and streams. It is often confused with the red salamander, but the mud salamander is distinguished by its dark eyes and short snout. It is indigenous to the eastern United States, but is currently an endangered species. Some states have programs to locate mud salamanders to try to keep the species alive.
View Wikipedia Record: Pseudotriton montanus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
13
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
39
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 25.56
EDGE Score: 3.28
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Length [2]  8 inches (20.7 cm)
Litter Size [4]  126
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  15 years
Water Biome [1]  Rivers and Streams
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  4 years 6 months
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Fessisentis necturorum[5]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Oliveira, 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.
♦ 3de 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
♦ 4Diet Diversity and Clutch Size of Aquatic and Terrestrial Salamanders, Robert G. Jaeger, Oecologia (Berl) (1981) 48:190-193
♦ 5Gibson, 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