Sentence examples for terrestrial salamanders from inspiring English sources

Primitive anurans have feeding mechanisms that resemble those of the typical terrestrial salamanders.

All terrestrial salamanders initially contact the prey with the tongue, which retracts quickly to deliver the quarry into the mouth.

Although the skulls of most terrestrial salamanders consist of more individual pieces than do those of either caecilians or anurans, they are arched, narrow, and not well roofed.

There is much variation in size, and terrestrial salamanders range from 40 to nearly 350 mm, with a few exceeding 1 metre (39 inches) in length.

These skulls have an extra set of articulations with the vertebral column, a characteristic that may have been an evolutionary strategy for stabilizing the head on the axial skeleton (vertebral column) in terrestrial salamanders; other amphibians developed a specialized trunk musculature to meet this challenge.

Using multiple metrics to assess the effects of forest succession on population status: a comparative study of two terrestrial salamanders in the US Pacific Northwest.

A GIS model predicting the spatial distribution of terrestrial salamander abundance based on topography and forest age was developed using parameters derived from the literature.

A terrestrial salamander catches its prey by flicking out its sticky tongue in an action that takes less than half a second.

Plethodon cinereus is a terrestrial salamander with a geographic range spanning across most of the northeastern United States, southern Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

For every centimetre SVL growth gained by an aquatic salamander, it gained approximately 30 mm of tail height; while every centimetre of snout-vent growth gained by a terrestrial salamander was accompanied by only 12 mm of tail height.

Provide your terrestrial salamander with a water bowl.