Arboreal Salamander

Information about Arboreal Salamander

Aneides lugubris

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Lissamphibia
Order:	Caudata
Family:	Plethodontidae
Genus:	Aneides
Species:	*A. lugubris*

Binomial name

Aneides lugubris
Hallowell, 1849

Aneides lugubris, the Arboreal salamander, is a species of climbing salamander. They are large, 5.1 to 8.1 cm, with plain purplish-brown coloring, usually spotted dorsally with gold or yellow, although they may also be unspotted. These salamanders have a large, triangular shaped head and large squared off toes.

Juveniles are dark overall, clouded with greyish color and fine yellow speckling on the back. They have rust markings on their snout, along their tail and on their sides above the forelimbs.

Male salamanders of this species can be distinguished by their broad triangular shaped head, with the front teeth of the jaw extend beyond the bottom lip.

This species is an excellent climber and difficult to capture. Large adults can inflict a painful bite. It is primarily associated with oak and sycamore woodlands, and thick chaparral.

An albino Aneides lugubris found in Lafayette, California.

References

Parra Olea et al (2004). Aneides lugubris. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 12 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
This article is based on a description from "A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians of Coastal Southern California", Robert N. Fisher and Ted J. Case, USGS, http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fieldguide/index.htm.

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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

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Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Lissamphibia
Haeckel, 1866

Orders

Anura
Caudata
Gymnophiona

The subclass Lissamphibia includes all recent amphibians.

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Caudata/Urodela

Suborders

Cryptobranchoidea
Salamandroidea
Sirenoidea
Salamander (orig. from Persian: sām, Fire, and andarūn, Within) is the common name applied to approximately 500 species
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Plethodontidae

Subfamilies

Desmognathinae
Plethodontinae
Lungless salamanders (family Plethodontidae) are distinguished from other families of salamanders by the following traits.

No lungs.

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Climbing salamander is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides. As this name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are as mobile up a tree as in a stream.
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Quercus
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Species

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The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus
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Sycamore is a name which is applied at various times and places to three very different types of trees, but with somewhat similar leaf forms.

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