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Spotted salamander

noun

Glossy black North American salamander with yellow spots. Synonym: Ambystoma maculatum.

European salamander having dark skin with usually yellow spots. Synonyms: fire salamander, Salamandra maculosa.

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"Spotted salamander" Quotes from Famous Books

... Larva of the Spotted Salamander (Salamandra maculata), seen from the ventral side. In the centre a yelk-sac still hangs from the gut. The external gills are gracefully ramified. The two pairs of legs ...

— The Evolution of Man, V.2 • Ernst Haeckel

... embodiment of my own thoughts. Or I was attracted by the passage of wild pigeons from this wood to that, with a slight quivering winnowing sound and carrier haste; or from under a rotten stump my hoe turned up a sluggish portentous and outlandish spotted salamander, a trace of Egypt and the Nile, yet our contemporary. When I paused to lean on my hoe, these sounds and sights I heard and saw anywhere in the row, a part of the inexhaustible ...

— Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience • Henry David Thoreau

Words linked to "Spotted salamander" : Salamandra, Salamandra maculosa, ambystomid salamander, ambystomid, fire salamander, genus Salamandra, salamander