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Blue-spotted Salamander

Posted by Emily Gerber,
North Country explorer from Odessa, FL
April 15, 2019

My herpetology class went out to the Kip Trail to look for herps. While I was walking through the woods I found a blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale) sitting on top of some leaf litter next to a log.

Blue-spotted Salamander