Red River Mudpuppy vs. Common Mudpuppy
The owner's pair: two mudpuppies told apart MOSTLY BY PLACE. The Red River Mudpuppy lives in the Arkansas and Red river drainages, the Common Mudpuppy to the north and east; their ranges touch in eastern Kansas and southern Missouri. A: Yellowish brown to rusty with many bold, distinct dark spots in the Red River Mudpuppy; grey to rusty brown with fewer, blurrier blue-black spots in the Common Mudpuppy. Belly: the Red River Mudpuppy's is pale with a wide unspotted light stripe down the middle; the Common Mudpuppy's grey, usually with dark spots (no open photo of either belly could be found). Size: Red River adults 8 to 10 in, rarely to 12; Common adults 8 to 13 in, rarely to 19. Belly spotting varies in Kansas (the Kansas Herpetofaunal Atlas). PLACE HELPS: in Kansas the Neosho and Verdigris basins hold the Red River Mudpuppy, the Marais des Cygnes basin the Common Mudpuppy.
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