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["ANNA VARNEY" <arvarney@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Charlie,
From what I can figure, the location with the salamanders is appx 600' above 
sea level.  The terain is wooded hillside with the bottoms of the hills 
containing seeps and springs, both salamanders(maybe it was the same 
traveller?) where found toward the top of the hill, one under a cement block 
and the other under a broom left outdoors. Both samanders where 3-4" in 
lenghth, black with silvery white specks-random, didn't count the slits on 
the sides of its body.  Glad I didn't pick it up!

Anna Varney
Summertown, TN


>From: Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [tn-bird] On Second thought... (oops!)
>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>I think I hit send too fast on that last one.  Slimy Salamanders
>barely make it into Tennessee, mostly in the mountains.  Anna, are
>you at some elevation?
>
>If not, you probably found a cousin, the so-called "Lead-backed
>Salamander", which is a form of the Red-backed Salamander of the same
>genus, P. serratus.  One of the few salamanders that don't go to
>standing water to breed.  They lay their eggs in moist areas, such as
>inside or under rotting logs.  The whole genus is nick-named
>"lungless salamanders" because they do, in fact, breathe entirely
>thorugh their skin, whereas most salamanders breathe partly through
>their skin as adults.  Outside the Smokies, Red-backed is probably
>one of the most commonly encountered salamanders.  In much of the
>eastern US, it is the one you generally find in disrupted areas, such
>as yards and city parks.
>
>But I could be wrong.... again!
>
>charlie
>
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>Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
>Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
>Townsend, TN  lat 35 deg, 38'23"  long 83 deg, 41'22"
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