Description: 3-5 in. (8-12.5 cm). This small flattened salamander is dark in color with green or yellow lichen-like markings on back. The toes webbed and squared at the tips.
Range and Habitat: This rare salamander is restricted to a small section of the southern mountains of North Carolina.  They are found in narrow crevices on damp rock faces.  Their bodies are adapted for this environment because of the flattened head and body.  Can also be found under stones, logs or loose bark. 
Habits: Green salamanders are most easily found by examining rock crevices and seeps a night with a flashlight.
Breeding: Female Green Salamanders lay 10 to 26 eggs in the walls of rock crevices in early summer. The female remains with the eggs until they hatch about three months later. Green Salamanders lack an aquatic larval stage, young emerging from eggs look like miniature adults.
Status: Green Salamanders are rare and require very specific habitats.

Range of the Green Salamander in the Carolinas and Virginia