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Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander
Desmognathus orestes
The Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander, (Desmognathus orestes), is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae.
From the article Blue Ridge dusky salamander on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
The species is endemic to the Blue Ridge Mountains range of the southern Appalachian Mountains, within western Virginia and North Carolina in the south-eastern United States. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater springs, and rocky areas. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
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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 27405.