lexyreinhardt's Identifications

Found in a pool close to a stream in Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park.

Northwestern salamander eggs are laid in firm masses that are orange to grapefruit sized (this mass was much bigger). Eggs are embedded in a jelly layer encompassing each egg and the entire egg mass giving it a bumpy surface. Older egg masses are often green with algae growing in the inner jelly layers. Egg masses are laid below the surface of fresh water.

The larvae have large feathery gills. They are dark and mottled on their dorsal side.

Their habitat includes, lake edges, slow-moving streams.

• approx. 30 cm tall
• growing near river in gravely/sandy area

flowers:

• pink heart shaped flowers with four petals (2 inner and 2 outer)
• arranged in an inflorescence (cluster of flowers) (panicle)
• outer 2 petals have spurs at top
• 2 small sepals

leaves:

• lots of divisions

Found "naked" without its shell in a tide pool at Prasiola Point.
Adults range in colour from olive green to brown to black. White bands on the second and third walking legs on the most distal joint. The antennae are brown with distinct white bands. A lot of hair/setae covering its body. Adults can grow to 2cm long. Intertidal species found in protected waters such as tide pools or under rocks.