Ambystoma
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AMBYSTOMATIDS:  Family - Ambystomatidae
Genus - Ambystoma
SIGHTINGS pictures for this genus are listed below.  This is to assist in visual
comparisons, as texts for this page are still yet unwritten.
Northwestern Salamander  Ambystoma gracile
Northwestern habitat - near mouth of Redwood Creek
(north side) near Orick, CA (Humboldt County)
November 27, 2007
Adult (A)
hind foot
Ambystoma in Captivity
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AMBYSTOMATIDS:  Family - Ambystomatidae
Genus - Ambystoma
fore foot
Adult (B)
These two Northwestern Salamanders were discovered under fallen wood near the mouth
of Redwood Creek (on the north side) on a chilly afternoon in late November 2007.
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This beauty was found by Alan Francis in cool clear seepage near the mouth of Fern
Canyon in Prairie Creek Redwood State Park (No. Humboldt County)   April 26, 2008
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"NEW" SIGHTINGS FROM 2007 by BRADFORD NORMAN
Ambystoma gracile (paedomorph -deceased)

Crescent City ditch (Del Norte County)
February 2, 2007
photos by Bradford Norman
This young Northwestern was found under a log
beneath a tree in a meadow (on a warm spring day!)
in Fieldbrook, CA (Humboldt County  June 19, 2008