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Lungless salamander - Definition |
| Related Words: Bullfrog, Chain, Crane, Croaker, Crook, Damper, Elemental, Frog, Gnome, Grating, Grid, Griddle, Gridiron, Grill, Lifter, Newt |
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Lungless salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) are salamanders which do not have lungs and instead conduct respiration through their skin and the tissues lining their mouth.
Plethodontidae includes several genera:
- Subfamily Desmognathinae
- Dusky Salamanders (Desmognathus) - 19 species
- Red Hills Salamanders (Phaeognathus) - 1 species
- Subfamily Plethodontinae
- Arboreal Salamanders (Aneides) - 6 species
- Slender Salamanders (Batrachoseps) - 20 species
- Bolitoglossa - 85 species
- Bradytriton - 1 species
- Chiropterotriton - 12 species
- Cryptotriton - 6 species
- Dendrotriton - 6 species
- Ensatina - 1 species
- Eurycea - 60 species
- Gyrinophilus - 4 species
- Haideotriton - 1 species
- Hemidactylium - 1 species
- Hydromantes - 10 species
- Ixalotriton - 2 species
- Lineatriton - 3 species
- Nototriton - 13 species
- Nyctanolis - 1 species
- Oedipina - 23 species
- Parvimolge - 1 species
- Woodland Salamanders (Plethodon) - 54 species
- Pseudoeurycea - 36 species
- Pseudotriton - 2 species
- Stereochilus - 1 species
- Thorius - 24 species
- Typhlomolge - 1 species
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