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Mud Puppy
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for North American salamanders of the genus Necturus, found in rivers and streams throughout the E United States and SE Canada. The name derives from an erroneous belief that mud puppies bark.
Aquatic forms include the Congo eel (measuring up to 3 ft. long) this siren (this up to 30 in. long) also mud puppy all of these retain their gills throughout life, in the underground streams the pale yellow salamanders are blind.
The name "siren" is generally given to salamanders that have lungs as well as gills and never develop beyond the larval stage. Other names salamanders go by include olm, axolotl, spring lizard, water dog, mud puppy, hellbender, triton, and congo eel.
 See also: Salamander, Lizard, Eel, Giant Salamander, Siren
  
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