Species:

Ambystoma gracile

Northwestern Salamander

February 20, 2005
Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino County, California
Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma gracile)
Northwestern Salamander (Ambystoma gracile)
This was the second-largest wild salamander I'd ever seen, though it was somewhat overshadowed in my mind by the largest, which I had seen the previous day.