74. Pigment on body in dorsolateral line a definite stripe 75. 

 Pigment so situated broken up or in spots 77. 



75. Dorsolateral line usually extending to the end of the tail; costal grooves 



14; sides of naso-labial groove in the male forming a free projection 

 on each side of the upper lip; Tenn. to Florida and Louisiana 



Eurycea bislineata arrigera (Green) Southern Two-lined 



Salamander 

 (Spelerpes cirrigera Green) 

 Pigment broken up or absent on half of tail toward tip; costal grooves 

 15 or 16; nasclabial grooves not so extended 76. 



76. Sides dark-spotted below dark stripe; Virginia to Tenn. and Georgia 



Eurycea bislineata wilderae Dunn Wilder's Two-lined 

 Salamander 

 Sides gray-mottled below dark stripe; northeastern states 



Eurycea bislineata bislineata (Green) Two-lined Salamander 



77. With a black stripe down the middle of the back; Virginia to Georgia 



and Louisiana 



Eurycea longicauda guttolineata (Holbrook) Three-lined or 



Striped Salamander 

 (Spelerpes guttolmeatus of Cope) 

 Middle of back usually spotted 78. 



78. With black bars on sides of tail; N. Y. to Georgia and Arkansas 



Eurycea longicauda longicauda (Green) Long-tailed 



Salamander 

 Tail clouded on sides; Missouri to Texas 



Eurycea longicauda melanopleura (Cope) Southern Long-tailed 



Salamander 



79. With a ridge marked by a light line running from eye to nostril; a dark 



line may or may not be present just below and parallel to this ridge 80. 



No ridge or light line from eye to nostril; a dark line may or may not 



run from eye to nostril 82. 



80. Light line from eye to nostril gray bordered below; back dark clouded or 



with a few scattered dark spots; northeastern states to Kentucky 

 Gyrinophilus porphyrxticus (Green) Northern Purple Sala- 

 mander (and varieties) 

 With a dark line from eye to nostril just below the light ridge; back and 

 sides finely and closely dark dotted; Blue Ridge Mountain area 81. 



81. Belly dark dotted 



Gyrinophilus danielsi (Blatchley) Blue Ridge Purple Salamander 

 Belly practically clear 



Gyrinophilus dunni Mittleman and Jopson Carolina Purple 

 Salamander 



82. Back brownish, with yellow flecks and clouding; Florida 



Fseudotriton montanus ^oridanus Netting and Coin Florida 

 Red Salamander 

 Back dark spotted or dotted 83. 



83. Back, sides and tail dark dotted rather than dark spotted; Georgia to 



Louisiana 



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