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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife319171918baus (find matches)
Year: 1917-1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Batrachoseps Major, A Remarkable Salamander DR. R. W. SHUFELDT. C. M. Z. S. -*
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Three specimens of tKe Garden Salamander (BatracKoseps major) Camp. The smallest one at one time lost his tail near the middle, and the part has been fuil^' restored, a marKad constriction being obsen^ed at the point of fracture. Photographed from life b^ the author; natural size. During the middle of April, 1917, I examined three specimens of the new salamander, Batrachoseps major, collect- ed by Mr. Charles Lewis Camp in Cali- fornia, and described by him in the Uni- versity of California Publications (Zool- ogy)**. These specimens were all alive and in fine condition, and shortly after they came into my temporary possession I made two five by eight negatives of them, all vertical view. One of these negatives has two specimens upon it, and the other three. The latter is rather the more in- teresting, and a photograph made from it is here reproduced, in that some idea of this new form may be obtained. It possesses an annulated tail, which is twice the length'of its body, and fully as thick anteriorly. For a salamander, its limbs are rather long, and each foot nor- mally possesses four toes. All the live specimens I had had probably been kepi in confinement some two or three weeks, or maybe more. This may accouunt for my finding their under-parts a pale pink- ish gray rather than "light yellow," as given by Mr. Camp. The upper parts are darker, being of a light shade of brown, showing fine, transverse, zig-zag lines from side to side. Under some con- ditions all of these salamanders turned much darker, and then paler again, the interval being considerable and the change very gradual. The jaws are broadly rounded and the eyes somewhat prominent. *Read before the Aquarium Society of Washington, at its regular meeting, April 12, 1917. **yol. 12, No. 12, pp. 327-334, April 2, 1917.

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