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web-toed salamander

DEFINITIONS OF: web-toed salamander

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n any of several salamanders with webbed toes and very long extensile tongues; excellent climbers that move with ease over smooth rock surfaces

Types:
Hydromantes shastae, Shasta salamander
primarily a cave dweller in the Mount Shasta area
Hydromantes brunus, limestone salamander
similar to Shasta salamander; lives in cliff crevices and taluses
Type of:
salamander
any of various typically terrestrial amphibians that resemble lizards and that return to water only to breed
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