Color a Hellbender

Description of the coloring page: The hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), also known as the hellbender salamander, is a species of aquatic giant salamander endemic to eastern North America. A member of the family Cryptobranchidae, hellbenders are the only members of the genus Cryptobranchus, and are joined only by one other genus of salamanders (Andrias, which contains the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders) at the family level. These salamanders are much larger than any others in their range, they employ an unusual means of respiration (which involves cutaneous gas exchange through capillaries found in their dorsoventral skin folds), and they fill a particular niche—both as a predator and prey—in their ecosystems, which either they or their ancestors have occupied for around 65 million years. The species is listed as Near Threatened. Read more...

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Color a Common Toad

Description of the coloring page: A toad is a common name applied to certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and parotoid glands.

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An adult mudpuppy for coloring

Description of Coloring Page: The common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) is a species of salamander in the genus Necturus. They live an entirely aquatic lifestyle in the eastern part of North America in lakes, rivers, and ponds. They go through paedomorphosis and retain their external gills, thus resembling axolotls. Because skin and lung respiration alone is not sufficient for gas exchange, mudpuppies must rely on external gills as their primary means of gas exchange. They are usually a rusty brown color and can grow to an average length of 33 cm (13 in). Mudpuppies are nocturnal creatures, and only come out during the day if the water in which they live is murky. Their diets consist of almost anything they can get in their mouths, including insects, earthworms, mollusks, and annelids. Once a female mudpuppy reaches sexual maturity, at six years of age, she can lay an average of 60 eggs. In the wild, the average lifespan of a mudpuppy is 11 years. Because of their prevalence and larger size than other salamanders, mudpuppies are good organisms for dissections. Read more... 

 

Oh, what a sweet little mudpuppy! Watch him 

swim in the stream before you color him in.

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Color this swamp toad from India

Description of Coloring Page: warts, webbed feet, sticky, large mouth, toad

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Color this shy cave salamander

Description of Coloring Page: Several salamanders that primarily or exclusively inhabit caves have commonly been termed "cave salamanders". Some of these animals have developed special, even extreme, adaptations to their subterranean environments. These adaptations include rudimentary (or even absent) eyes—thus the related term "blind salamanders"—or absence of pigmentation, rendering them a pale yellowish or pinkish color. Read more...

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This little cave salamander is from Ohio. He has lovely skin.

A coloring page of the Natterjack toad

Description of Coloring Page: The natterjack toad (Bufo calamita) is a toad native to sandy and heathland areas of Europe. Adults are 60–70 mm in length and are distinguished from common toads by a yellow line down the middle of the back, and parallel paratoid glands. They have relatively short legs, and this gives them a distinctive gait, contrasting with the hopping movement of many other toad species. Read more...

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"Ellie heads to the coast to try to find some natterjack toads (Epidalea calamita) and investigate their conservation."

Color this larva of the tiger salamander

Description of Coloring Page:  tail, amphibian, slippery

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"F is for frog" alphabet coloring page

Description of Coloring Page: letter Ff identification, practice tracing the letter Ff, upper and lower case Ff, amphibian, frog

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Color This Speckled Salamander

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Description of Coloring Page:  spots, tail, amphibian, slippery

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