The ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii) is a species complex of plethodontid (lungless) salamanders found in coniferous forests, oak woodland and chaparral...

Origin of Species. Also in the 1940s, Robert C. Stebbins described the Ensatina salamanders around the Californian Central Valley as a ring species; but...

herring gull–lesser black-backed gull complex around the North pole, the Ensatina eschscholtzii group of 19 populations of salamanders in America, and the...

and north to Alaska. The Oregon ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii oregonensis) (commonly known by its genus name, Ensatina) is a complex of plethodontid...

they hatch. Some amphibians brood their eggs. The female salamander Ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii) curls around the clutch of eggs and massages individual...

ochrophaeus LC Coastal giant salamander – Dicamptodon tenebrosus LC Ensatina – Ensatina eschscholtzii LC Northern two-lined salamander – Eurycea bislineata...

"Why does the yellow-eyed ensatina have yellow eyes? Batesian mimicry of Pacific newts (genus Trachia) by the salamander Ensatina eschscholtzii xanthoptica"...

salamander. The female salamander often broods the eggs. In the genus Ensatinas, the female has been observed to coil around them and press her throat...

tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum) and the painted ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii picta). Despite the Southwest being mostly arid, various...

tiger salamander (Ambystoma mavortium nebulosum) and the painted ensatina (Ensatina eschscholtzii picta). The current Mexican states that lie in Aridoamerica...