Hellbender, the Glossary
The hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), also known as the hellbender salamander, is a species of aquatic giant salamander endemic to the eastern and central United States.[1]
Table of Contents
105 relations: Alabama, Alabama waterdog, Ancient Greek, Andrias, Animal Diversity Web, Arkansas, Arnold B. Grobman, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, Benjamin Smith Barton, Biological specificity, Blasius Merrem, Cane toad, Cannibalism, Capillary, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Chinese giant salamander, Chytridiomycosis, Cloaca, Common mudpuppy, Common name, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Crayfish, Cutaneous respiration, Ecological niche, Ecosystem, Edward Drinker Cope, Endangered Species Act of 1973, Endemism, External fertilization, Eye, Family (biology), Filial cannibalism, François Marie Daudin, Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart, Genetic diversity, Genus, Georgia (U.S. state), Giant salamander, Gill slit, Goliath frog, Holocene, Illinois, Indiana, Insect, IUCN Red List, J. Alan Holman, Japanese giant salamander, Johann Georg Wagler, John Edwards Holbrook, ... Expand index (55 more) »
- Amphibians described in 1803
- Cryptobranchidae
- Extant Gelasian first appearances
- Natural history of the Great Smoky Mountains
- Symbols of Pennsylvania
Alabama
Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Alabama waterdog
The Alabama waterdog (Necturus alabamensis) is a medium-sized perennibranch salamander inhabiting rivers and streams of Alabama. Hellbender and alabama waterdog are endemic amphibians of the United States.
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Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
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Andrias
Andrias is a genus of giant salamanders. Hellbender and Andrias are Cryptobranchidae.
Animal Diversity Web
The Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is a non-profit group that hosts an online database site that collects natural history, classification, species characteristics, conservation biology, and distribution information on species of animals.
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Arkansas
Arkansas is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States.
Arnold B. Grobman
Arnold B. Grobman (April 28, 1918 – July 8, 2012) was an American zoologist.
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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, also known as Bd or the amphibian chytrid fungus, is a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians.
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Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) is a pathogenic chytrid fungus that infects amphibian species.
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Benjamin Smith Barton
Benjamin Smith Barton (February10, 1766December19, 1815) was an American botanist, naturalist, and physician.
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Biological specificity
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
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Blasius Merrem
Blasius Merrem (4 February 1761 – 23 February 1824) was a German naturalist, zoologist, ornithologist, mathematician, and herpetologist.
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Cane toad
The cane toad (Rhinella marina), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad native to South and mainland Central America, but which has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean, as well as Northern Australia.
Cannibalism
Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.
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Capillary
A capillary is a small blood vessel, from 5 to 10 micrometres in diameter, and is part of the microcirculation system.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) is a non-profit organization devoted to the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States.
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Chinese giant salamander
The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. Hellbender and Chinese giant salamander are Cryptobranchidae.
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Chytridiomycosis
Chytridiomycosis is an infectious disease in amphibians, caused by the chytrid fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans.
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Cloaca
A cloaca,: cloacae, is the rear orifice that serves as the only opening for the digestive, reproductive, and urinary tracts (if present) of many vertebrate animals.
Common mudpuppy
The common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) is a species of salamander in the family Proteidae. Hellbender and common mudpuppy are amphibians of the United States.
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Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.
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Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (22 October 178318 September 1840) was a French early 19th-century polymath born near Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire and self-educated in France.
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Crayfish
Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters.
Cutaneous respiration
Cutaneous respiration, or cutaneous gas exchange (sometimes called, skin breathing), is a form of respiration in which gas exchange occurs across the skin or outer integument of an organism rather than gills or lungs.
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Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
Edward Drinker Cope
Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist.
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Endangered Species Act of 1973
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA or "The Act"; 16 U.S.C. § 1531 et seq.) is the primary law in the United States for protecting and conserving imperiled species.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
External fertilization
External fertilization is a mode of reproduction in which a male organism's sperm fertilizes a female organism's egg outside of the female's body.
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Eye
An eye is a sensory organ that allows an organism to perceive visual information.
Family (biology)
Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.
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Filial cannibalism
Filial cannibalism occurs when an adult individual of a species consumes all or part of the young of its own species or immediate offspring.
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François Marie Daudin
François Marie Daudin (29 August 1776 in Paris – 30 November 1803 in Paris) was a French zoologist.
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Friedrich Sigismund Leuckart
Friedrich Andreas Sigismund Leuckart (26 August 1794 – 25 August 1843) was a German doctor and naturalist.
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Genetic diversity
Genetic diversity is the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Giant salamander
The Cryptobranchidae (commonly known as giant salamanders) are a family of large salamanders that are fully aquatic. Hellbender and giant salamander are Cryptobranchidae.
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Gill slit
Gill slits are individual openings to gills, i.e., multiple gill arches, which lack a single outer cover.
Goliath frog
The goliath frog (Conraua goliath), otherwise known commonly as the giant slippery frog and the goliath bullfrog, is a species of frog in the family Conrauidae.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Indiana
Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Insect
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.
IUCN Red List
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.
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J. Alan Holman
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Japanese giant salamander
The Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) is a species of fully aquatic giant salamander endemic to Japan, occurring across the western portion of the main island of Honshu, with smaller populations present on Shikoku and in northern Kyushu. Hellbender and Japanese giant salamander are Cryptobranchidae.
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Johann Georg Wagler
Johann Georg Wagler (28 March 1800 – 23 August 1832) was a German herpetologist and ornithologist.
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John Edwards Holbrook
John Edwards Holbrook (December 31, 1796 – September 8, 1871) was an American zoologist, herpetologist, physician, and naturalist, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, the son of Silas Holbrook, a teacher, and Mary Edwards.
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Kairomone
A kairomone (a coinage using the Greek καιρός opportune moment, paralleling pheromone"kairomone, n.". OED Online. September 2012. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/241005?redirectedFrom.
Kansas
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek (9 January 1890 – 25 December 1938) was a Czech writer, playwright, critic and journalist.
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Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Lateral line
The lateral line, also called the lateral line organ (LLO), is a system of sensory organs found in fish, used to detect movement, vibration, and pressure gradients in the surrounding water.
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Leonhard Stejneger
Leonhard Hess Stejneger (30 October 1851 – 28 February 1943) was a Norwegian-born American ornithologist, herpetologist and zoologist.
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List of U.S. state amphibians
This is a list of official U.S. state, federal district, and territory amphibians.
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Maryland
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Missouri Department of Conservation
The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the Missouri Conservation Commission were created by Article IV Sections 40-42 of the Missouri Constitution, which were adopted by the voters of the state in 1936 as Amendment 4 to the constitution.
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Mollusca
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals, after Arthropoda; members are known as molluscs or mollusks.
NatureServe
NatureServe, Inc. is a non-profit organization based in Arlington County, Virginia, US, that provides proprietary wildlife conservation-related data, tools, and services to private and government clients, partner organizations, and the public.
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Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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North Carolina
North Carolina is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Ohio
Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
Ovipositor
The ovipositor is a tube-like organ used by some animals, especially insects, for the laying of eggs.
Ozarks
The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.
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Pennsylvania State Senate
The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
Ranavirus
Ranavirus is a genus of viruses in the family Iridoviridae.
Reticulated siren
The reticulated siren (Siren reticulata), also known as the leopard siren or colloquially as the leopard eel, is a species of aquatic salamander in the family Sirenidae. Hellbender and reticulated siren are endemic amphibians of the United States.
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Richard Harlan
Richard Harlan (September 19, 1796 – September 30, 1843) was an American paleontologist, anatomist, and physician.
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Saint Louis Zoo
The Saint Louis Zoo, officially known as the Saint Louis Zoological Park, is a zoo in Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri.
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Seasonal breeder
Seasonal breeders are animal species that successfully mate only during certain times of the year.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Sherman C. Bishop
Sherman Chauncey Bishop (November 18, 1887 – May 28, 1951) was an American arachnologist and herpetologist who was a professor of zoology at the University of Rochester from 1928 to 1951.
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Siltation
Siltation is water pollution caused by particulate terrestrial clastic material, with a particle size dominated by silt or clay.
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
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South Carolina
South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.
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South China giant salamander
The South China giant salamander (Andrias sligoi) is a species of very large salamander endemic to southern China, mainly in the Pearl River basin south of the Nanling Mountains. Hellbender and south China giant salamander are Cryptobranchidae.
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
Species reintroduction
Species reintroduction is the deliberate release of a species into the wild, from captivity or other areas where the organism is capable of survival.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Tadpole
A tadpole is the larval stage in the biological life cycle of an amphibian.
Tennessee
Tennessee, officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
Thomas Barbour
Thomas Barbour (August 19, 1884 – January 8, 1946) was an American herpetologist.
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Tom Wolf
Thomas Westerman Wolf (born November 17, 1948) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 47th governor of Pennsylvania from 2015 to 2023.
United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Fish and Wildlife Service
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS or FWS) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior which oversees the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats in the United States.
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Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.
Vulnerable species
A vulnerable species is a species which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatening its survival and reproduction improve.
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Wehrle's salamander
Wehrle's salamander (Plethodon wehrlei) is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. Hellbender and Wehrle's salamander are endemic amphibians of the United States.
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West Virginia
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
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Western waterdog
The western waterdog (Necturus beyeri) is a species of aquatic salamander in the family Proteidae. Hellbender and western waterdog are endemic amphibians of the United States.
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White River (Arkansas–Missouri)
The White River is a river that flows through the U.S. states of Arkansas and Missouri.
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Wildlife trade
Wildlife trade refers to the products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions.
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Worm
Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and usually no eyes.
Yolk sac
The yolk sac is a membranous sac attached to an embryo, formed by cells of the hypoblast layer of the bilaminar embryonic disc.
See also
Amphibians described in 1803
Cryptobranchidae
- Andrias
- Andrias matthewi
- Andrias scheuchzeri
- Chinese giant salamander
- Eoscapherpeton
- Giant salamander
- Hellbender
- Japanese giant salamander
- Jiangxi giant salamander
- Ozark hellbender
- Qimen giant salamander
- South China giant salamander
Extant Gelasian first appearances
- Bison
- Hellbender
- Red kangaroo
- Toucan
Natural history of the Great Smoky Mountains
- Aesculus flava
- Amanita frostiana
- Appalachian balds
- Appalachian cottontail
- Appalachian temperate rainforest
- Betula alleghaniensis
- Central and southern Appalachian montane oak forest
- Chimney Tops
- Clingmans Dome
- Cosberella lamaralexanderi
- Dryopteris campyloptera
- Fagus grandifolia
- Fraser fir
- Great Smoky Mountains
- Halesia carolina
- Halesia monticola
- Halesia tetraptera
- Hellbender
- Hydrangea arborescens
- Ilex montana
- Indiana bat
- Kalmia latifolia
- Marks Knob
- Mount Sterling (Great Smoky Mountains)
- Northern flying squirrel
- Old Black (Great Smoky Mountains)
- Oxydendrum
- Photinus carolinus
- Picea rubens
- Prunus pensylvanica
- Pygmy salamander
- Quercus coccinea
- Red-cheeked salamander
- Rhododendron catawbiense
- Rugelia
- Southern Appalachian low-elevation pine forest
- Southern Appalachian salamander
- Southern Appalachian spruce–fir forest
- Southern gray-cheeked salamander
- Spruce-fir moss spider
- Stewartia ovata
- Tilia americana
- Tricorner Knob
- Tsuga canadensis
- Tsuga caroliniana
- Viburnum lantanoides
- Wildflowers of the Great Smoky Mountains
Symbols of Pennsylvania
- Brook trout
- Coat of arms of Pennsylvania
- Coccinella septempunctata
- Eldredgeops rana
- Flag of Pennsylvania
- Hellbender
- Kalmia latifolia
- List of Pennsylvania state symbols
- Long rifle
- Pennsylvania (song)
- Pennsylvania Railroad 1361
- Pennsylvania Railroad 3750
- Pennsylvania Railroad 4859
- Ruffed grouse
- Seal of Pennsylvania
- Theodore Wint Grave
- Tsuga canadensis
- USS Niagara (1813)
- White-tailed deer
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbender
Also known as Cryptobranchus, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis, Cryptobranchus allegheniensis, Eastern Hellbender, Helbender, Hellbender salamander, Snot otter.
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