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Caudata: information (1) Caudata: pictures (84) Caudata: specimens (4)

Caption

Reproductive strategies in Caudata: 1) an eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) carefully wraps her eggs individually in vegetation with her hind feet; 2) a tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) guards her aquatic clump of eggs; 3) an Appalachian woodland salamander (Plethodon jordani) is coiled around its terrestrial clutch.

Subject
Annotated

Subject
Behavior

Subject
Eggs

Subject
Life-Cycle

Subject
Live Animal

Type
Illustration

Life Stages And Gender
Adult/Sexually Mature

Behaviors
Reproduction

Life Stages And Gender
Egg

Anatomy
Female

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