Slimy Salamander

Slimy Salamander
(Plethodon glutinosus)

Description: 4 1/2-8 1/8" (11.4-20.6 cm). Usually shiny black with large white, gray, or yellow spots on sides and scattered smaller silvery white spots and/or brassy flecks atop head, back, and tail. Throat dark. Belly slate colored. Costal grooves, 16.

Breeding: Courts and mates spring and fall in north, summer in south. Lays clutch of 6-36 eggs in underground retreat or in rotting log, late spring in north, August-September in south. Female guards nest. No aquatic larval stage. Larvae hatch late summer in north, October in south; mature in 3 years. Northern females lay every other year, southern females every year.

Habitat: Shaded ravine slopes, shale banks, wooded floodplains, cave entrances; near sea level to 5,500' (1,676 m).

Range: C. and w. New York south to West Virginia, e. Tennessee, c. Georgia and e. Alabama; west to Illinois and w. Kentucky; isolated population in s. New Hampshire.

Discussion: Nocturnal. Active all year in the south. In the north, appears at the surface in early spring and, except during summer dry spells, can be found under flat rocks and rotten logs until the onset of sub-freezing temperatures in fall. After showers, the Slimy moves about the forest floor in search of invertebrate prey. Slimy's skin glands secrete a gluey substance that is next to impossible to remove from the fingers - thus the species name glutinosis. The Slimy Salamander "complex" has been split into 13 separate species; these are nearly indistinguishable from one another in the field, best identified by geography.

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• Slimy
• Salamander
• Salamanders
• Amphibians
• Herping
• Kolby
• Long
• Alabama

[bigboy3293]

Just think u can keep flipping all your life,LOL Keep it up, we get to see a lot of bama herps.Have you found any big snappers? Thats the dinosaur in your area,Thanks for the video.

[TheSnakeLibrary]

@bigboy3293 I saw one before I started filming, but not since then.

[herpindude2010]

I find those all the time but haven't found one since I started youtube ( I think they're mocking me...)

[TheSnakeLibrary]

@herpindude2010 Yeah I use to find those every day and then when I started filming I couldnt find any. Its weird how that happens.

[herpindude2010]

@TheSnakeLibrary told u they're mocking us

[TheSnakeLibrary]

@ZombieKidZac Yeah that would be a really cool idea though. Maybe I can get an extra memory card and we can do that on one of the next videos.

[ZombieKidZac]

@TheSnakeLibrary ohhhhhh ok. i just thought it would be cool



[TheSnakeLibrary]

@WildlifeCrazy25 Yeah there a cool species. Its almost impossible to get the slime off your hands after you catch it.

[TheSnakeLibrary]

@ZombieKidZac I know what your saying, but we'd have to do way to much editing and not have enough memory to film what we find.

[WildlifeCrazy25]

nice find and cool pics at the end. I like the look of the spots against the black color, those guys are sticky! lol