Northern gray-cheeked salamander
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Plethodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Plethodontinae |
| Genus: | Plethodon |
| Species: | P. montanus
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| Binomial name | |
| Plethodon montanus Highton & Peabody, 2000
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The northern gray-cheeked salamander (Plethodon montanus) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae and endemic to the Blue Ridge Mountains and Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States. It is closely related to the Red-cheeked salamander and the Red-legged salamander. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is found under moss, rocks, logs, and bark in cool, moist forests above 2500 feet. Especially found in spruce-fir forests. The Gray-cheeked Salamander commonly eats millipedes, earthworms, crane flies, spiders, and centipedes and less commonly eats ants, mites, and springtails.[2] They eat spiders, moths, flies, beetles, bees, and snails.[3] The male and female perform a courtship, where the male nudges the female with his snout, does a foot dance, then circles under the female and the two then walk together.[4] It is threatened by habitat loss.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b IUCN SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (2014). "Plethodon montanus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T59349A56341130. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-1.RLTS.T59349A56341130.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
- ^ Beamer, David; Lannoo, Michael. "Plethodon montanus". Amphibia Web. University of California. Retrieved February 9, 2021.
- ^ "Northern Gray-cheeked Salamander, Plethodon montanus, Plethodon jordani". Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
- ^ "Northern Gray-cheeked Salamander Plethodon montanus". Virginia Herpetological Society. Virginia Herpetological Society. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
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