Two Amelanistic Eastern Red-backed Salamanders (Plethodon cinereus) from Eastern Canada

Authors

  • Jean-David Moore Forêt Quèbec, Direction de la recherche forestière, 2700, rue Einstein, Ste-Foy, Quèbec G1P 3W8
  • John Gilhen Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3A6

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v125i1.1126

Keywords:

Amelanistic, Eastern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus, deciduous forest, Quebec, coniferous forest, Nova Scotia, Canada

Abstract

Three colour morphs of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus, are known in eastern Canada: red-backed, lead-backed, and erythristic. Anomalies, including two albino and four leucistic individuals, are also known from eastern Canada. We report the first salamander individuals exhibiting amelanism, which is a lack of black skin pigment, but with black eyes, one from Quebec and one from Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Vol. 125 No. 1 (2011)

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