Red Hills Salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti) - Wiki Red Hills
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Phaeognathus hubrichii. From http://cars.er.usgs.gov/pics/salama
nder/salamander/salamander_10.html The Red Hills salamander
(Phaeognathus hubrichti) is a fairly large, terrestrial
salamander growing to about 255 millimeters. Its body color is
gray to brownish without markings, and its limbs are relatively
short. It is the official state amphibian of Alabama. The range
of the Red Hills salamander is restricted to a narrow belt of
two geological formations, approximately 60 miles long (east to
west) and between 10 and 25 miles wide (north to south), in
southern Alabama. These formations are included within the Red
Hills physiographic province of the Coastal Plain. The range is
limited on the east by the Conecuh River and on the west by the
Alabama River (Jordan and Mount 1975). Currently, there are
eight published locality records from Butler, Conecuh,
Covington, Crenshaw, and Monroe Counties