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Spring Salamander vs. Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

A Spring Salamander is large and salmon to orange-brown, clouded with darker mottling rather than crisp spots, with a pale line from the eye to the nostril and a tail flattened towards the tip. The Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander has no such line.

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Spring Salamander

Gyrinophilus porphyriticus

Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander

Desmognathus ochrophaeus
Spring Salamander vs. Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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