Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander vs. Northern Pygmy Salamander

Both have a coppery stripe and live under moss and logs in the high spruce-fir of the north-east. A: 2.5 to 4.5 in in the Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander; under about 2.3 in: tiny in the Northern Pygmy Salamander. B: A plain or dark-edged stripe in the Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander; a dark herringbone (chevron) line down the middle of the stripe in the Northern Pygmy Salamander. C: As long as the body or longer in the Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander; short, shorter than the body in the Northern Pygmy Salamander.

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