Climbing Salamanders
Aneides
Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides. It contains 10 species native to North America, distributed between the Pacific Coast (7 species), Sacramento Mountains (1 species), and Appalachian Mountains (2 species). As their common name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are quite mobile in trees.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 10 known species
Arboreal Salamander
speciesAneides lugubris
Green Salamander
speciesAneides aeneus
Wandering Salamander
speciesAneides vagrans
Speckled Black Salamander
speciesAneides flavipunctatus
Clouded Salamander
speciesAneides ferreus
Santa Cruz Black Salamander
speciesAneides niger
Klamath Black Salamander
speciesAneides klamathensis
Sacramento Mountain Salamander
speciesAneides hardii
Hickory Nut Gorge Green Salamander
speciesAneides caryaensis
Shasta Black Salamander
speciesAneides iecanus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 27422.