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Spring Salamander vs. Red 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 Red Salamander has no such line.

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Spring Salamander

Gyrinophilus porphyriticus

Red Salamander

Pseudotriton ruber
Spring Salamander vs. Red Salamander: comparison sheet with the differences marked

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