I've been trying to find as many salamanders as I can here, and have been making several trips to the panhandle area in hopes of finding them.
I had moderate success on this last trip.
These have got to be most yellow looking Dwarf salamanders around. I looked closely with the help of J. Scott, and the size of them, plus the cirri on the male suggesting maturity, speckling, and belly coloration makes these probably Eurycea cf. quadridigitata. Here are some other pictures of individuals found that day.
First one
Second one
2nd and 3rd together
Cricket Frog
Marbled Salamander - I never remember to bring water to wash them off a bit before pictures, so this one has log dust on it.
The one on the right (I think) is a Yellow-bellied Slider (T. s. scripta). The one on the left is Pseudemys. Not sure on the species though. Gadsden County if it helps.
Two-lined Sally (Not any more)
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Congratulations on your lifer two-lined!! Such cool critters! Log dust and slime shine- a salamander photographer's nemesis!!!!!!
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Really cool. I'll email you.
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Are you sure that is a yellow belly, Noah? It looks to me like another cooter. The shell shape isn't quite right for Trachemys, there are no dark spots on the gular scutes, and there does not seem to be a yellow blotch behind the eye.
Congrats on that two-lined, by the way! That's good stuff!
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Congrats on that two-lined, by the way! That's good stuff!
--Berkeley
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When I looked at it full res, it looked like the yellow-bellies in our pond, with the bright yellow "S" behind the eye. But honestly, they were so far away, I'm not really confident in my ID.Berkeley Boone wrote:Are you sure that is a yellow belly, Noah? It looks to me like another cooter. The shell shape isn't quite right for Trachemys, there are no dark spots on the gular scutes, and there does not seem to be a yellow blotch behind the eye.
Congrats on that two-lined, by the way! That's good stuff!
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Re: Two-lined Sally (Not any more)
No worries. The second pic you put in, the cropped one from your first pic; that is definitely a cooter.
Sorry about the two lines, too. I was actually going to say that they looked liked Dwarves to me, but I didn't want to be 'that guy' and correct two IDs in one post.
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Sorry about the two lines, too. I was actually going to say that they looked liked Dwarves to me, but I didn't want to be 'that guy' and correct two IDs in one post.
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What species of cooter? I was too far west I think for Swuannee. General river cooter, concinna?
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Re: Two-lined Sally (Not any more)
Looking at the shell shape, that is what I would agree with. A nice mid-size concinna.captainjack0000 wrote:What species of cooter? I was too far west I think for Swuannee. General river cooter, concinna?
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