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Black Mountain Salamander vs. Seal Salamander

Both are big streamside duskies with knife-edged tails in the rocky streams of the Cumberland Mountains (Seal records in all 5 of the Black Mountain Salamander's one-degree squares). A: Light brown with scattered small dark spots and streaks in the Black Mountain Salamander; a bold net of dark, worm-like lines and blotches in the Seal Salamander. B: Whitish, speckled light brown to grey, shading gradually into the sides in the Black Mountain Salamander; clean, almost unmarked white, sharply set off from the sides in the Seal Salamander.

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Black Mountain Salamander

Desmognathus welteri

Seal Salamander

Desmognathus monticola
Black Mountain Salamander vs. Seal Salamander: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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