family Plethodontidae

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Related to family Plethodontidae: lungless salamander, dusky salamander

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family Plethodontidae - small mostly terrestrial New World salamanders having neither lungs nor gills as adults

Plethodontidae

amphibian family - any family of amphibians

Caudata, order Caudata, order Urodella, Urodella - salamanders; newts; congo snakes

genus Plethodon, Plethodon - type genus of the Plethodontidae

lungless salamander, plethodont - mostly terrestrial salamanders that breathe through their thin moist skin; lay eggs in moist places on land; rarely enter water

Desmograthus, genus Desmograthus - an amphibian genus of Plethodontidae

Aneides, genus Aneides - climbing salamanders

Batrachoseps, genus Batrachoseps - slender salamanders

genus Hydromantes, Hydromantes - web-toed salamanders

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Previous laboratory studies on local populations of ecologically similar predators have shown that competition may be an important mechanism influencing the distribution of secondary and tertiary consumers in the litter of temperate forests in northeast Ohio (Gall et al., 2003, carabid beetles; Hickerson et al., 2004, centipedes; Anthony et al., 2007, centipedes; Figura, 2007, spiders), and a growing body of evidence suggests that terrestrial salamanders in the family Plethodontidae are important regulators of invertebrate communities and of decomposition of organic material on temperate forest-floors (Burton and Likens, 1975; Hairston, 1987; Wyman, 1998; Rooney et al., 2000; Walton, 2005; Walton and Steckler, 2005).

Interactions among forest-floor guild members in structurally simple microhabitats

Comparison of the symbiotic fauna of the family Plethodontidae in the Ouachita Mountains of western Arkansas.

Helminth parasites (Trematoda, Nematoda) of the western slimy salamander, Plethodon albagula (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from central Texas

Comparative osteology and evolution of the lungless salamanders, family Plethodontidae. Mem.

A mid-Holocene fauna from Bear Den Cave, Sequoia National Park, California

Family Plethodontidae.--The only plethodontid seen within the study area was a single two-lined salamander (Eurycea cirrigera, ISUVC #4104).

Urban herpetology II: amphibians and reptiles of the Indianapolis airport conservation lands

The salamanders of the family Plethodontidae. Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts.

Feeding habits of seepage-dwelling dusky salamanders (Desmognathus fuscus) of Short Mountain, Cannon County, Tennessee