Mount Lyell Salamander vs. Ensatina
Both live in the Sierra Nevada; their records overlap in Yosemite and the central Sierra, the Ensatina lower down. A: Short and blunt in the Mount Lyell Salamander; pinched in where it joins the body in the Ensatina. B: Granite-grey with greenish-silver lichen-like patches in the Mount Lyell Salamander; plain orange-brown (Sierra Nevada form) or black with yellow blotches in the Ensatina. C: Very flat and broad in the Mount Lyell Salamander; rounded, with big bulging dark eyes in the Ensatina. The Mount Lyell Salamander lives on high granite talus and wet rock below snowfields, mostly above 6,500 ft.
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