MUD PUPPY

common name for North American salamanders of the genus Necturus, found in rivers and streams throughout the E United States and SE Canada. The name derives from an erroneous belief that mud puppies bark. Like its relative, the European olm, the mud puppy exhibits neoteny, i.e., it reaches sexual maturity without losing its larval characteristics. Adults have lungs, characteristic of most adult salamanders, as well as gills, characteristic of larvae. Their short, sturdy limbs develop at an early stage. The mud puppy may reach a length of 12 in. (30 cm); it is reddish brown and black-spotted above and grayish below, with conspicuous bushy red gills at the sides of its head. It walks on river bottoms and feeds primarily on crayfish and aquatic plants. Mud puppies are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Amphibia, order Urodela, family Proteidae.

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books on: Mud Puppy  - 95 results

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Dreams: A Key to Self-Knowledge
Book by Zygmunt A. Piotrowski, Albert M. Biele; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986
Subjects: Dreams
...men -- as represented by the mud puppy -- was powerfully dissented level...about reptiles, especially mud puppies. Mud puppies are cold-blooded, which means...against successful tempters. The mud puppy exhibited by far the strongest...
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Field Book of Ponds and Streams: An Introduction to the Life of Fresh Water
Book by Ann Haven Morgan; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1930
Subjects: Freshwater Biology
...Locally common, eastern states: westward to Kentucky and Tennessee. Mud-puppies--Necturidoe. Mud-puppy, water-dog, Necturus maculosus. --A mud- puppy looks like a frog-puppy, or a dachshund in a froggy
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A Sourcebook of Feminist Theatre and Performance: On and beyond the Stage
Book by Carol Martin; Routledge, 1996
...chance we got. Just climbed outta the mud and went down and grabbed a Mr. Softee...And my talk stank worse than their mud. About my mother they said she wasnt...woman. That other times she was a mud puppy and a river pussy. That we lived in...
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Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - Vol. 11
Book by Anne O'Daly; Marshall Cavendish, 2004
Subjects: Biology--Encyclopedias, Life Sciences--Encyclopedias
...eel-like bodies. They live in mud burrows in the sw-amps of the southeastern...also to have internal gills. Olms, mud puppies, and water dogs (Proteidae) are...of water dogs and one species of mud puppy inhabit aboveground fresh water in...
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Wisconsin: A Guide to the Badger State
Book; Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1941
Subjects: Wisconsin--Description And Travel--Guide-Books
...snapping turtle, painted turtle, and mud puppy are found throughout the State, the...Bowfin, mooneye, short-nosed pike, mud minnows, common pike, grass pickerel...stickleback, nine-spined stickleback, mud cat, black bullhead, stone cat...
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Sourisford Salamanders: Renewal Iconography of the Devils Lake-sourisford Ceramic Complex
Journal article by Jayme L. Job; Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 54, 2009
Subjects: Aquatic life, Native North Americans, Patents
...considered the effigies of the vessel to be lizards, mud-puppies, or salamanders, with little differentiation noted...used to dispense medicine; the cup had a siredon or mud-puppy on the bottom to increase the power of the liquids...
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Abundant Years: An Elizabeth Spencer Checklist, 1976 to 1992
Journal article by Catherine E. Lewis; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 47, 1994
Subjects: Spencer, Elizabeth--Bibliography
...local dance production, and passes the remaining time writing her husband. 1988 "The Legacy." Chapel Hill, NC: Mud Puppy, 1988. Reprinted in On the Gulf, 1991, pp. 11-60. Dottie Almond is, in effect, an orphan, and crippled from...
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Northern Redistribution of Freshwater Pearly Mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) during Wisconsin Deglaciation in the Sothern Glacial Lake Agassiz Region: a Review
Journal article by Daniel L. Graf; The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 138, 1997
Subjects: Glaciers, Lake Agassiz, Lakes, Marine biology, Mollusks, Prehistoric era, Wisconsin
...connections for dispersal. Nearly all unionoideans are dispersed by fish (except for Simpsonaias ambigua which parasitizes the mud puppy, Necturus maculatus), and mussels have very specific geographic distributions limited to one or more drainage basins...
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Green Mansions of Tamaulipas
Journal article by Paul S. Martin; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 48, 2006
Subjects: Birds--Collections and collecting, Tamaulipas, Mexico--Description and travel
...MM pried my fingers loose. "This isnt Puppy Snups," she announced. I knew that well enough. Puppy Snups was a cloth rag doll that shared naps...intensely alive. The rat had it all over Puppy Snups. Hand-in-hand MM marched me back...
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Maggie Tulliver's Sad Sacrifice: Confusing but Not Confused
Journal article by June Skye Szirotny; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 28, 1996
Subjects: Eliot, George--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Mill on the Floss (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...pushing cousin Lucy into the mud, and running away (see also...when Maggie pushes Lucy into the mud, George Eliot depreciates the...as a ony, a Skye terrier, a puppy, and a young lioness, while...Maggie pushed Lucy into the mud when her Rhadamanthine brother...
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In the Jungle with Marcos
Magazine article by Saul Landau; The Progressive, Vol. 60, March 1996
Subjects: Economic development--Mexico, Government, Resistance to--Mexico, Guillen Vicente, Rafael Sebastian--Interviews, Human rights--Mexico, Mexico--Relations with the United States, United States--Relations with Mexico, Zapatista National Liberation Army (Mexico)--Officials and employees
...the vehicle skids down slippery mud slopes with nothing but 200 feet...reestablishes its equilibrium, a small puppy approaches, an animal slightly...trudge a quarter of a mile on a mud path and immerse hot flesh in...my hand, smiling through his mud-colored ski mask. He carries...
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Unsticking the Dog
Magazine article by Liana Stanley; The New American, Vol. 26, January 4, 2010
Subjects: Animal behavior--Appreciation, Dogs--Appreciation
...one, Leo, was stuck in the mud and the larger, Spike, was...sinking deeper and deeper into the mud, and his head was partially...to extract Leo from the thick mud, and Rivera and Nicoletti towed...something unstuck--even a puppy dog!"
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June Solutions
Magazine article by Teresa Palagano; Working Mother, Vol. 30, June 2007
Subjects: Children & youth, Ice cream, Recipes, School lunches, Windows & doors
...The kids are pleading for a puppy, but you cant imagine having...teacher, Washington, NJ PUPPY LOVE The best things we ever...in a swing set and get two puppies! I grew tired of seeing the...and watching television. The puppies prompted them to get outside...that eventually turns to a mud slide at the bottom. None...
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Letter from Egypt
Magazine article by P.J. O'Rourke; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, September 2002
Subjects: Egypt--Description and travel
...Peter said, "built their houses out of mud and their tombs out of stone--to last...and palm groves along the Nile are low mud houses of a kind unchanged since the days...anachronistic eroticism wears off, the gimmick of puppy-headed gods palls, and a satiety with...
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Running with BEARS
Magazine article by Paul Rauber; Sierra, Vol. 84, March 1999
Subjects: Grizzly bear--Behavior, Kamchatka Peninsula--Plants and animals, Wildlife research--Personal narratives
...bear," opines Maureen.) We pause at a mud hole to see whos been in the neighborhood...next to one sheltering three foxes and a puppy there used to be medvedi, bears, but...pokes her head underwater, but stirred up mud has obscured the fish. Clearly frustrated...
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The Taliban Were out There - but So Was a Dying Dog; (1) Pen Ended Up Caring for Five Dogs and 14 Puppies. They Included: AK, Top, Who Was Rescued after Being Bitten by a Snake; Jena, Left, with One of Her Pups; and Tali, below, with the Puppies She Sneaked into the Base (2) CREATURE COMFORTS: Pen and RPG Take a Break Inside the Marines' Compound. Right: Kilo Company on Dawn Patrol in Now Zad, Afghanistan
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 18, 2009
Subjects: Dogs--Military aspects, Snakes--Military aspects, Soldiers--Military aspects
...through a tiny depression in the mud under the bottom of the metal...first, followed by a thin, mud- streaked head. It was a scatty...as she padded over to a small mud cave. Thats the third, Grant...litter when Jena delivered eight puppies on New Years Eve. We now had...
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PUPPY LOVE! Muddy Walks, Wagging Tails and Lots of New Friends. XANTHE WHITTAKER Borrows a Dog for a Long Weekend in Shropshire and Is Instantly Smitten
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 15, 2009
PUPPY LOVE! Muddy Walks, Wagging Tails and Lots of New Friends...WHITTAKER WANDERING on my local common, I spot two whippet puppies racing around each other in a whirlwind of lanky grey legs...distracts me from the fact that Im wading kneedeep through mud. After slip-sliding my way along one side of the steep ridge...
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Horror of the Puppy Farm Terriers; RESCUERS BRAND CONDITIONS FOR 200 DOGS AND 37 CATS 'PURE EVIL'
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 18, 2006
Horror of the Puppy Farm Terriers; RESCUERS BRAND...ELLEN WIDDUP TWO HUNDRED puppies and 37 kittens have been found...adjoining stable was caked in mud and had been tied up for 24...trust, is caring for 86 of the puppies and 29 kittens. She said...There were three or four puppies crammed into each plastic box...
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250 Aninmals in Puppy Farm Horror; Abandoned Dogs Are Left to Eat Bodies of the Dead in Filthy Cages While Horse Starves in Its Stable
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 18, 2006
Subjects: Horses
250 Aninmals in Puppy Farm Horror; Abandoned Dogs...RANDHAWA TWO HUNDRED and fifty puppies and 37 kittens have been found...adjoining stable was caked in mud and had been tied up for 24...trust, is caring for 86 of the puppies and 29 of the kittens. She...There were three or four puppies crammed into each plastic box...
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242 ANIMALS IN PUPPY FARM HORROR; Abandoned Dogs Were Left to Eat Bodies of the Dead
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 18, 2006
242 ANIMALS IN PUPPY FARM HORROR; Abandoned Dogs...shed with no windows. Six puppies were dead. The creatures were...adjoining stable was caked in mud and had been tied up for 24...There were three or four puppies crammed into each plastic box...very thirsty. Some of the puppies had died and their bodies had...
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encyclopedia articles on: Mud Puppy  - 3 results

 
 
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Mud Puppy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MUD PUPPY common name for North...erroneous belief that mud puppies bark. Like its relative...European olm, the mud puppy exhibits neoteny...early stage. The mud puppy may reach a length...aquatic plants. Mud puppies are classified in the...
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Salamander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sirenidae) of S United States and N Mexico, in the mud puppies (family Protidae), and in the Mexican axolotl . It...The olm is a European blind salamander related to the mud puppy . The giant salamander ( Dicamptodon ensatus ) of the...
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Olm
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OLM see mud puppy . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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