How to identify five different types of salamanders

Yellow-spotted Salamander

up to 15 cm long up to 30 bright yellow spots overall colour is grey-black or blue-black

Blue-spotted Salamander

up to 15 cm long blue-black all over may be paler underneath pale blue spots on sides, chin, legs

Eastern Redback Salamander

colour varies - black with red stripe, all black, or all red very slender body up to 10 cm long lives in woods, not ponds

Four-toed Salamander

colour varies - orange to red brown above, sides mottled with spots white belly is distinctive slender, up to 9 cm not commonly found

Red-spotted Newt

Adult Newt: tail flattened vertically olive-green with red spots on back up to 12 cm long lives in ponds Juvenile (Red eft) all red-orange red spots down the back up to 5 cm long lives in woods, lakeshores

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