12 costal grooves (lines on side) back is dark, grayish-brown. belly is lighter ... Costal grooves are easily detected. Examples: Northern Dusky, Mountain Dusky ...
Red-backed Salamander Red-backed salamanders feed on a large variety of invertebrates. These include mites, spiders, insects, centipedes, millipedes, beetles ...
French Broad Watershed Aquatic Life The over four thousand miles of the French Broad River Watershed in North Carolina supports an incredible wide array of aquatic life.
Works with communities to provide tools for them to undertake watershed assessments ... Success of new riparian buffers (6 miles) Bacteria. Stormwater runoff ...
Example: Caecilians. Urodela (aka: Caudata) meaning: oura = tail, delos = evident ... Caecilians. 160 species. Only found in tropics. Look like large worms ...
... further reduction of the jugal in Archosauria (crocs and birds) and Lepidosauria results in a single temporal opening. (A fourth pattern, euryapsid, ...
State Wildlife Grants Program and the Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy Jenny A. Landry Conserving Biodiversity US laws and policies place primary ...
Looking at Salamanders at the Species Level. Kindom: Animalia. Phylum: ... Order: Caudata. Families: Cryptobranchidae, Proteidae, Salamandridae, Ambystomatidae ...
Speciation produces 'sister species' descended from a common ancestor ... marsupial 'wolf,' 'badger' (T. devil), 'mole,' 'mouse,' 'deer' (kangaroo), South America ...
Descendant species retain characters of common ancestor possibly ... 'Patagonian hare' in S. America. Convergence of placental and marsupial mammals. Australia ...
Frogs and toads immatures aquatic scrapers, adults terrestrial ... What about piscivorous fish? Piscivores. Biomass. small fish. zooplankton. phytoplankton ...
Aquatic plants Grass carp (White Amur) Introduced from Asia to control weeds ... Peter and Paul bass present, few minnows, lots of zooplankton, and little chla ...
Origin and Relationships of Modern Amphibians. Ray-finned Fish. Coelocanths. Lungfish ... and modern Amphibians. Thus outgroup. and character selection may be biased ...