Big Levels Salamander vs. Eastern Red-backed Salamander

The Big Levels Salamander is a red-backed salamander of a few square miles of the Blue Ridge in Augusta County, where the Eastern Red-backed lives round it; it was split by its proteins and differs in small ways. A: Dull, brick-red, dusted with brassy flecks inside and along it in the Big Levels Salamander; bright, clean red or orange, without brassy dusting in the Eastern Red-backed Salamander. B: Dark with silvery-white flecks and brassy dusting in the Big Levels Salamander; lead-grey, finely speckled with white in the Eastern Red-backed Salamander. The Big Levels has a wider head, longer legs, a red V on top of the head and a belly with more white than grey. Where you are counts as much as any mark.

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