Genus
Aneides (Climbing salamanders)
Aneides flavipunctatus. Photo: (c) Todd Pierson, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
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.
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