10 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



AMPHIUMA TRIDACTYLUM Cuvier 

 Three-Toed Congo-snake 



Type locality: New Orleans, Louisiana. 

 General distribution : Northern Florida to Louisiana, 

 up the Mississippi Valley to Missouri. 



Alabama records : Greensboro, Hale County. 



FAMILY : CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE 



GENUS: CRYPTOBRANCHUS, Leuckart. 



CRYPTOBRANCHUS ALLEGANIENSIS (Daudin) Cope 

 Hell-bender 



Type locality: Allegheny Mountains, Virginia. 



General distribution : Western New York, the Great 

 Lakes system, Iowa and southward to Georgia and Louis- 

 iana. 



Alabama records : None. 



FAMILY: SALAMANDRIDAE, (Pleurodelidae) 



GENUS: NOTOPHTHALMUS, Rafinesque. 



NOTOPHTHALMUS MERIDIONALIS (Cope) 



Stejneger & Barbour 



{Diemyctylus viridescens Tneridionalis Cope) 



Type locality : Mexico. 



General distribution : Southern Georgia to Louisiana, 

 Texas and Mexico. 



Alabama records: None. 



NOTOPHTHALMUS VIRIDESCENS VIRIDESCENS 

 (Rafinesque) 



(Diemyctylus viridescens Cope) 

 Common Newt (aquatic form), Red Eft (terrestrial form) 



Type locality: Lake George, Lake Champlain. 



General distribution : Eastern North America. 



Alabama records: Mobile and Lawrence Counties; 

 common under logs in winter (terrestrial form) and in 

 ponds in summer (aquatic form). 



