Tag Archive | salamanders
Variation of the Refuge Depth of Salamanders at the Morgan Arboretum
Overview Although they are hidden amongst the leaf litter and often hard to spot, salamanders are key subjects in many ecological studies. While clearing out rocks from a site at the Morgan Arboretum, one of our team members noticed an abundance of salamanders underneath rocks located deeper in the soil. According to studies completed about […]
Salamanders of the Morgan Arboretum
Welcome fellow salamander enthusiasts! Some of you may already be familiar with our Twitter page (@MacSalamanders), if not, we are a group of four undergraduate students from McGill University (Montreal, QC) conducting a research project on salamanders. Salamanders and newts are amphibians within the Caudata order and belong to the Salamandridae family and Pleurodelinae subfamily, […]
Salamanders: their natural history and our research
Salamanders belong to the Caudata order. Along with Anura (frogs) and Gymnophiona (caecilians), they belong to the Amphibian group (Bishop 1943). Salamanders are often confused with lizards because of their similar body form but they lack scales. Instead salamanders have moist glandular skin that is permeable to water and unlike frogs, they have tails and […]
The St. Lawrence Lowlands 