Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Larval Salamander







Here is the most awesome thing I have found yet!!!!
(Sorry about the poor photo quality, I shake something terrible.)

It is a larval salamander, I believe (based on talk to Dr Welch - I feel like such a name dropper :0)) that it is from the family Ambystomatidae. I found the little guy in some stagnant water pools near a friend’s house in Moncks Corner, SC. You can see how huge his gills are because of his low oxygen habitat. He looks like a little living dragon.

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