Description: 1.5 -2.5 in. (4-6 cm). A tiny, slender salamander with a rounded tail.  There is stripe on the back colored from yellow to tan and usually a "Y" shaped mark on the head.  Unlike pygmy and mountain dusky salamanders, the belly is mottled with dark pigment.
Range and Habitat: Only known from the southwestern mountains of North Carolina. Found under damp leaf mold on forest floors, near seepages, brooks and streams.
Habits: This small salamander is most active at night or during wet weather. Eat a variety of small invertebrates.
Breeding: No aquatic larval stage.  Females lay eggs in damp moss in April or May and guard them till they hatch. Young resemble miniature adults.

Range of the Seepage Salamander in the Carolinas and Virginia