The picture posted is one of our mole salamanders (family Amystomatidae). This common family name comes from their habit of staying underground and in burrows of other creatures, except when breeding.

The tiger, spotted, Jefferson's, blue-spotted, and marbled salamanders are the New York representatives of a family known as the mole salamanders, so-called because they spend most of their adult life ...

Some (the so-called mole salamanders) live underground. Now, a new book, “Salamanders of the Eastern United States,” published by the University of Georgia Press, provides detailed portrayals ...