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Dwarf Black-bellied Salamander vs. Seal Salamander

Seal Salamanders share the Dwarf Black-bellied's high-gradient rocky streams in Clay County. A: Two neat rows of white or pale yellow dots along each side in the Dwarf Black-bellied Salamander; no rows of pale dots; a bold net of dark, worm-like lines on lighter brown in the Seal Salamander. Turn it over: the Dwarf Black-bellied belly is black (white only in new young), the Seal's clean white, sharply set off from the sides. Both have keeled tails and pale eye-to-jaw lines.

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Dwarf Black-bellied Salamander

Desmognathus folkertsi

Seal Salamander

Desmognathus monticola
Dwarf Black-bellied Salamander vs. Seal Salamander: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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