Northern Two-lined Salamander

Eurycea bislineata

The Northern Two-lined Salamander is a small, yellowish salamander with two dark stripes. They love to live in cool, damp places and are great at hiding under rocks and logs!

Lebensraum: Forests

Aussehen

The Northern Two-lined Salamander has a slender body with a yellow to orange-yellow back. It is distinctive for two prominent black lines running from behind its eyes down its sides, extending onto the tail. Its underside is typically a pale yellow.

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Northern Two-lined Salamander

Kategorie

Amphibien

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

Mach den ersten Snap!

Interessante Fakten

Sometimes they build underground tunnels near streams to stay cool and hidden!

Their name "bislineata" means "two-lined" in Latin, describing their stripes!

These salamanders can live under rocks and logs for many months during winter!

They spend their entire larval life living underwater as tiny gilled creatures!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Northern Two-lined Salamander can breathe underwater and on land through its moist skin and mouth lining because it has no lungs!

Northern Two-lined Salamander can drop its tail when grabbed by a predator, distracting the attacker and allowing the salamander to escape.

Northern Two-lined Salamander hunts at night, using its keen senses to find tiny insects and worms when predators are less active.

Northern Two-lined Salamander has speckled brown and yellow skin that helps it blend perfectly with rocks and leaves in its streambed home.

Maße und Details

Länge: 7-12 cm
Gewicht: 0.001-0.003 kg
Lebenserwartung: 5-10 Jahre
Gelegegröße: 10-90
Metamorphose: 365-1095 Tage

Ernährung und Fütterung

This tiny amphibian loves to snack on small insects, spiders, and other tiny invertebrates found near water!

Altersunterschiede: Larvae eat tiny aquatic invertebrates, while adults consume a wider variety of terrestrial and aquatic insects.

Hauptnahrung

mayfly larvae
beetles
mites
spiders
small worms

Nahrungssuche

Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

eaten by

Brown Trout

Salmo trutta

Large fish often prey on both adult and larval salamanders.

eaten by

Common Garter Snake

Thamnophis sirtalis

Snakes hunt them near water, especially during warmer months.

hunts

Midge

Chironomus plumosus

Adults and larvae consume the tiny larval stages of midges in streams.

hunts

Caddisfly

Limnephilus rhombicus

Larval salamanders feed on small caddisfly larvae found on streambeds.

Merkmale

Gestreift

Gekennzeichnet durch parallele Farbstreifen oder -linien.

Einzelgänger

Einzelgänger leben den größten Teil ihres Lebens allein und interagieren mit Artgenossen nur zur Paarung oder zur Aufzucht der Jungen.

Getarnt

Getarnt beschreibt Organismen, die über eine Färbung oder Musterung verfügen, durch die sie mit ihrer Umgebung verschmelzen.

Insektenfressend

Dieses Merkmal kennzeichnet Organismen, deren Nahrung hauptsächlich aus Insekten und anderen kleinen Wirbellosen besteht.

Wald

Waldlebensräume sind terrestrische Lebensräume, die von dichtem Baumbestand dominiert werden und eine große Vielfalt an Pflanzen- und Tierarten beherbergen.