Olympic Torrent Salamander vs. Western Red-backed Salamander

Both live along small forest streams on the Olympic Peninsula (records overlap in 13 cells). A: Small and stout with big bulging eyes and a short tail in the Olympic Torrent Salamander; slim, with smaller eyes and a longer tail in the Western Red-backed Salamander. B: Plain brown with few dark spots, no stripe in the Olympic Torrent Salamander; a stripe down the back in the Western Red-backed Salamander. The Olympic Torrent's belly is yellow to yellow-orange (no open photo shows it); the Western Red-backed's is grey, salt-and-pepper. Torrent salamanders live right in ice-cold trickles.

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