Latest Breaking News On - Carolina sandhills salamander - Page 1 : comparemela.com
The discovery of this new animal species in N C is more than 50 years in the making
greensboro.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greensboro.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The discovery of this new animal species in NC is more than 50 years in the making
greensboro.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from greensboro.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Credit: Todd Pusser
Already possessing more salamander species than any other state in the country with 63, North Carolina has just added one more to make it 64. The aptly named Carolina Sandhills Salamander (
Eurycea arenicola) is found in association with springs, seepages and small blackwater streams of the Sandhills region of North Carolina.
The Carolina Sandhills Salamander was previously lumped in as an unusual population of the Southern Two-lined Salamander (
Eurycea cirrigera), but researchers at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences applied next generation sequencing technology to show that the new species differs genetically (in both the mitochondrial and nuclear genome) from other species of two-lined salamanders (
Already possessing more salamander species than any other state in the country with 63, North Carolina has just added one more to make it 64. The aptly named Carolina Sandhills Salamander (Eurycea arenicola) is found in association with springs, seepages and small blackwater streams of the Sandhills region of North Carolina.
The Carolina Sandhills Salamander was previously lumped in as an unusual population of the Southern Two-lined Salamander (Eurycea cirrigera), but researchers at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences applied next generation sequencing technology to show that the new species differs genetically in both the mitochondrial and nuclear genome from other species of two-lined salamanders.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.