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

Summary

Published in The Canadian Field-Naturalist 125(1): 58-60. https://doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v125i1.1126

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.

Sector(s): 

Forests

Categorie(s): 

Scientific Article

Theme(s): 

Forest Ecology, Forestry Research, Forests

Departmental author(s): 

Moore, Jean-David

Author(s)

MOORE, Jean-David and John GILHEN

Year of publication :

2011

Format :

Paper

Keywords :

salamandre cendrée, amelanistique, variété, couleur, érablière, écologie dynamique des arbres, Plethodon cinereus, article scientifique de recherche forestière, écologie forestière, forest ecology, red-backed salamander, amelanistic, colour morph, Northern hardwood

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