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Flat-headed Salamander vs. Seal Salamander

Turn the rocks in a stream on the Blue Ridge plateau and the duskies you find are Flat-headed and Seal salamanders (Herping Virginia). A: Orange to brown: a dark-edged band with dark spots along the middle in the Flat-headed Salamander; a bold net of dark, worm-like lines on brown in the Seal Salamander. B: Long, broad and flat, the snout sloping down from the eyes in the Flat-headed Salamander; shorter and rounder in the Seal Salamander. The Seal's belly is clean white; the Flat-headed's is white to tan, mottled on the throat and behind the hind legs.

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Flat-headed Salamander

Desmognathus planiceps

Seal Salamander

Desmognathus monticola
Flat-headed Salamander vs. Seal Salamander: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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