Urspelerpes brucei, Patch-nosed Salamander

[Jennewt]

New species, and even a new genus. The other amazing thing is that these sals are incredibly tiny.
http://www.fieldherpforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=26017
I have some photos from Dick Bartlett that I will post on CC shortly. Thank you to Dick for tipping me off to this. It was just published in Journal of Zoology.

 

[marco]

Well thats encouraging to see that even on a continent as heaviley populated as North America there are still new species to be found. quite attractive too, I dont think it mentioned but do they prefer warmer temperature's or are they typical of most Caudates?

 

[Jennewt]

Photos posted
http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Urspelerpes/U_brucei.shtml

 

[John]

The species account for these needs to be updated: they are also found in adjoining South Carolina.

 

[Jan]

The species account for these needs to be updated: they are also found in adjoining South Carolina.

In one county I believe in SC. I'll update the information and send to Jen.