
Climbing Salamanders
Aneides
Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides. As this name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are as mobile up a tree as in a stream. All six species inhabit mountain ecosystems, and all but two are found primarily in the mountains of California.
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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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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.