#1959 · 🐸 amphibians

Red Salamander

🇳🇱 Rode salamander ·Pseudotriton ruber

LCleast concern 🐸 Amphibians 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The red salamander ( Pseudotriton ruber ) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae endemic to the eastern United States. Its skin is orange/red with random black spots. Its habitats are temperate forests, small creeks, ponds, forests, temperate shrubland, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater, trees springs. Overall this species is common and widespread, but locally it has declined because of habitat loss and it is considered threatened in Indiana.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,580iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
9,580 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pierre André Latreille in 1801 (225 years ago).