Arboreal Salamander
Aneides lugubris
Description: The arboreal salamander is large for a plethodontid salamander, at about 10 to 19 cm total length. Adults are robust, with muscular jaws and very broad and triangular heads.
Arboreal Salamander
Sighting:
Sheep Dung Estates, Yorkville, Mendocino County, California ...
Arboreal Salamander, Aneides lugubris
Properly named, these salamanders are expert climbers and can often be found up in the canopies of the trees. Their climbing ability is enhanced by their elongated digits and their prehensile tail.
However, virtually no studies have been done on possible adhesive structures of arboreal salamanders.
But most, like the arboreal salamander Aneides lugubris and the California slender salamander Batrachoseps attenuatus, don't have lungs or gills as adults.
 See also: Salamander, Slender Salamander, California Slender Salamander, Newt, Ensatina
  
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