Three-lined Salamander vs. Long-tailed Salamander

The two meet from Tennessee and Kentucky to Virginia (18 one-degree squares, 15 with several records of both) and hybridize where they meet; both are long, slender and yellow with dark marks. Long-tailed Salamanders do not reach Louisiana. A: A dark line down the middle of the back and a broad dark band along each side in the Three-lined Salamander; scattered black spots; no middle line and no dark side band in the Long-tailed Salamander. B: The dark side bands run down the tail, broken by pale marks in the Three-lined Salamander; black spots joined into vertical bars, like a herringbone in the Long-tailed Salamander.

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