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title: "Blue Ridge Blackbelly Salamander"
description: "Desmognathus mavrokoilius — Anfibios. The Pisgah black-bellied salamander or Blue Ridge black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus mavrokoilius) is a species of lungless salamander in the family Plethodontidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/blue-ridge-blackbelly-salamander
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Blue Ridge Blackbelly Salamander

> Desmognathus mavrokoilius — Anfibios. The Pisgah black-bellied salamander or Blue Ridge black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus mavrokoilius) is a species of lungless salamander in the family Plethodontidae.

- Scientific name: *Desmognathus mavrokoilius*
- Category: `amphibians` (Anfibios)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bosque), `mountains` (Montañas)
- iNaturalist observations: 1398
- iNaturalist taxon: [1404301](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/1404301)

## Names

- en: Blue Ridge Blackbelly Salamander

## Countries with the most observations

US (974)

## Summary

The Pisgah black-bellied salamander or Blue Ridge black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus mavrokoilius) is a species of lungless salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to the eastern United States, where it is only known from the southern Appalachian Mountains.
It ranges throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains of much of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee north to extreme southwest Virginia, being bordered to the south by the eastern Great Smoky Mountains and southeastern Great Balsams, and to the north by Mount Rogers.
Initially grouped with the blackbelly salamander (D. quadramaculatus), a 2022…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisgah_black-bellied_salamander

## Photo

![Blue Ridge Blackbelly Salamander](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/blue-ridge-blackbelly-salamander/medium.jpg)

Photo: Ken Kneidel · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/15304574

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/blue-ridge-blackbelly-salamander?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).