Stats

Lifespan

Up to 10 yrs

Size

Medium

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Nocturnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Temperate woodland

Range

North America

Movement

Climbing

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Uncommon

About

A lungless climbing salamander native to California and Baja California's oak woodlands, gripping bark with prehensile tail and toe pads that let it scale tree trunks well above the forest floor.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A jelly-coated egg is laid in water and develops over days into an aquatic larva.
2. 2.
   tadpole

   A gilled tadpole swims and grazes on algae, slowly absorbing its tail and growing limbs.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A near-adult amphibian leaves the water with new legs and lungs, smaller than the mature form.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown at adult size, breathing air.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

Order

Caudata

Family

Plethodontidae

Genus

Aneides

Species

Aneides lugubris