Holbrook's Southern Dusky Salamander vs. Apalachicola Dusky Salamander

The Apalachicola Dusky's ravine seeps in the far south-west lie close to Holbrook's swamps. A: Dark, with no pattern in the Holbrook's Southern Dusky Salamander; 5 to 7 pairs of light, dark-edged blotches in the Apalachicola Dusky Salamander. The tail tells them apart too: blade-like and keeled in Holbrook's, round and flattened only towards the tip in the Apalachicola. Holbrook's lives in mucky swamps and blackwater; the Apalachicola Dusky in small seepage streams at the bottoms of deep wooded ravines.

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