photo credit: Mike Dorcas

Wehrle's Salamander

Description: 4-5 in. (10-13 cm). Coloration of body is dark gray or brown with a row of irregular whitish spots along the side of body.  The throat is white or splotched with white, while belly is gray.  Have webbing on hind feet.
Habitat: Usually found in upland forests under stones, rotting logs, rock crevices, and caves throughout the mountains of North Carolina.
Young: Eggs are laid in the early summer and metamorphosis occurs at time of  hatching.  There is no aquatic larval stage.