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Silver-white variants of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus, from Eastern Canada

Summary

Published in Canadian Field-Naturalist 130(2): 133-136

The Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus) is well known for its colour polymorphism, which includes 8 colour phenotypes: the red-backed (striped), lead-backed (unstriped), and erythristic morphs, as well as the iridistic, albino, leucistic, amelanistic, and melanistic anomalies. Among these, the prevalence and geographic distribution of rare morphs have received little attention. In this article, we report 2 occurrences of silver-white variants of the red-backed morph of P. cinereus from Québec, Canada. To our knowledge, these variations in stripe colour on the red-backed phenotype represent the first 2 documented mentions for eastern Canada.

Sector(s): 

Forests

Categorie(s): 

Scientific Article

Theme(s): 

Ecosystems and Environment, Forest Ecology, Forestry Research, Forests

Departmental author(s): 

Moore, Jean-David

Author(s)

OUELLET, Martin and Jean-David MOORE

Year of publication :

2016

Keywords :

phénotypes, salamandre cendrée, salamandre rayée, couleur, morphe, anomalie, écologie forestière, écosystèmes et environnement, coloration, Plethodon cinereus, ecosystems and environment, forest ecology, phenotypes, red-backed, silver, colour anomaly, eastern Red-backed Salamander

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