Nathan050793
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I have a fairly mature salamander larva that I found the other day in a spring out at my uncle's house. The larva is elongated and is yellow. It has two dark lines running down its sides starting from its neck. There is some dark shading under the lines. The stripes start at the neck, so it does not have a "mask" on its face. At first I thought it might be a two-lined salamander larva, but it is pretty big, around 2 inches from head to tip of tail. Also I have seen two-lined larva in the same spring, and they appear to have a sort of "mask". It doesn't look like any spring salamander larva or adults I have found there either. I checked Caudata Culture and it really doesn't look like any of the larva pictured. The only thing that didn't have a larval picture was the Northern Dusky Salamander. I did find an adult dusky salamander the same day, but the two look totally different, the dusky is more blunt and stocky. Can anybody help me with identification?
P.S.
I tried to post pictures but my camera is terrible, not only did the images look blurry, but the file size was too big to upload on the forum (800KB?!).
P.S.
I tried to post pictures but my camera is terrible, not only did the images look blurry, but the file size was too big to upload on the forum (800KB?!).