Kingdom Animalia Subphylum Vertebrata Order Caudata Scientific name Desmognathus monticola | Phylum Chordata Class Amphibia Family Plethodontidae Rank Species | |
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Similar Blackbelly salamander, Desmognathus, Desmognathus fuscus, Ocoee salamander, Allegheny Mountain dusky sal | ||
The seal salamander (Desmognathus monticola) is a species of lungless salamander that is endemic to the Eastern United States.
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Blue seal salamander
Distribution
The seal salamander can be found from southwestern Pennsylvania and south through Appalachian Mountains areas of high elevation in West Virginia, western Maryland, western and northern Virginia, eastern Kentucky, western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, western South Carolina, and northern Georgia to central Alabama. There are also disjunctive populations in southern Alabama as well as at the very western end of the Florida panhandle. In the north of its range, it has not been observed north or west of the Ohio River.
Its habitat includes rocky mountain streams, spring-fed brooks in the ravines of deciduous forests, muddy sections of streams and seepages. The total adult population size of the species is assumed to exceed 100,000.
An introduced population is present in Benton County, Arkansas.
