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| Â | Plethodontidae |
 | | Salamanders of the family Plethodontidae, commonly called "lungless salamanders," are widely distributed in eastern and western North America and Central America, with populations also in South America, southern Europe and Sardinia. | | | Phylogeny of plethodontid salamanders and the evolution of feeding dynamics. | | | The evolution of plethodontid salamanders: Did terrestrial mating facilitate lunglessness? |
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http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Plethodontidae&contgroup=Caudata
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| | New species of large black salamander, genus Bolitoglossa (Plethodontidae) from western Panamá. | | | Hanken, J. Egg development time and clutch size in two neotropical salamanders. | | | Hanken, J. Appendicular skeletal morphology in minute salamanders, genus Thorius (Amphibia: Plethodontidae): Growth regulation, adult size determination, and natural variation. |
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http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Herpetology/publications.htm
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| Â | Plethodontidae (Gray, 1850) Lungless Salamanders |
| | Plethodontidae includes the only caudate genera to inhabit tropical zones; a range that extends into Central and South America. | | | The lungless salamanders are distributed almost exclusively throughout the Americas, with a small group populating parts of Europe. | | | Members of the family Plethodontidae include aquatic, semi-aquatic, and terrestrial species, as well as fossorial, and arboreal species. |
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http://www.livingunderworld.org/caudata/database/plethodontidae
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| Â | PLETHODONTIDAE - Lungless Salamanders |
| | AmphibiaWeb is a useful source for species lists and has information on some if not most of the species. | | | The Plethodontidae are the largest families of salamanders, constituting about twenty genera and over 160 species. | | | However, there is information both in print and on the Internet on the individual species and genera, both natural history and captive husbandry, especially of North American species. |
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http://www.nafcon.dircon.co.uk/plethodontidae.html
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| Â | ADW: Plethodontidae: Information |
| | Plethodontidae is commonly split into two subfamilies, Desmognathinae and Plethodontinae, the latter of which contains three tribes: Hemidactyliini, Plethodonini, and Bolitoglossini. | | | Representing more than half of all known salamander species, with new species being discovered yearly, the lungless salamanders are found throughout the northeastern U.S., and on the west coast of North America. | | | Tails range from body length, to twice body length. |
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http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Plethodontidae.html
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| Â | ADW: Caudata: Information |
| | Representatives of the remaining four families are also found in Europe and/or Asia, and one family has radiated into tropical America ( Plethodontidae). | | | Caudates are easily distinguished from other amphibians on the basis of several morphological characters, including the presence of a tail in all larvae, juveniles and adults. |
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http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/chordata/lissamphibia/caudata.html
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| Â | salamander on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The newts are a large, widely distributed family of salamanders; North American species include the red-spotted newt, which goes through a terrestrial stage known as the red eft. | | | Most salamanders, including most that remain in an aquatic environment, go through a typical amphibian metamorphosis into air-breathing adults. | | | As adults they have whitish, translucent skin, which covers their eyes. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/s1/salamand.asp
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| Â | Plethodontidae / Distance Learning |
| | Starware search is an excellent resource for quality sites on Plethodontidae and much more! | | | Why not ZIP to one of the newest and most relevant search engines on the Internet and find exactly what you are looking for and more? | | | Find the Best Sites For Plethodontidae With Starware |
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http://plethodontidae.onemoment.ru/
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| Â | Plethodontidae - MavicaNET |
| | Populations of Mexican plethodontid salamanders have been surveyed non-systematically over the last 25 years. | | | Status of some populations of Mexican salamanders (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) - English | | | This group of amphibians are referred to as "lung-less salamanders"
; as these terrestrial, aquatic, and arboreal salamanders have no lungs. |
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http://www.mavicanet.com/directory/ukr/32575.html
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| Â | EEB Faculty: Kurt Schwenk |
| | Schwenk, K. and G. Throckmorton (1989) Functional and evolutionary morphology of lingual feeding in squamate reptiles: phylogenetics and kinematics. | | | Schwenk, K. and D. Wake (1993) Prey processing in Leurognathus marmoratus and the evolution of form and function in desmognathine salamanders (Plethodontidae). | | | Schwenk, K. (1993) The evolution of chemoreception in squamate reptiles: a phylogenetic approach. |
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http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/faculty/schwenk/schwenk.htm
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