Lungless Salamander

Lungless salamanders (Family Plethodontidae) are salamanders which do not have lungs and instead conduct respiration through their skin and the tissues lining their mouth.

Plethodontidae includes several genera:

• Aneides (green salamanders)
• Desmognathus (dusky salamanders)
• Eurycea (brook salamanders)
• Gyrinophilus (spring salamanders)
• Haideotriton (blind salamanders)
• Hemidactylium (four-toed salamanders
• Leurognathus (shovelnose salamanders)
• Phaeognathus (red hills salamanders)
• Plethodon (woodland salamanders)
• Pseudotriton (red and mud salamanders)
• Stereochilus (many lined salamanders
• Typhlomolge (blind salamanders)
• Typhlotriton (blind salamanders)