Skin colour Redback Salamander
peer reviewed
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
No inheritance mode has been recorded for Skin colour, so no offspring odds are given. Guessing one would be worse than saying nothing: a breeder would plan a season on it.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph.
- Integrating ecological and community science data to understand patterns of colour polymorphism and social behaviour at the northern range limit of a plethodontid salamander. — PLoS One 2025
- Spatial variation in sexual size dimorphism and mating associations in the color polymorphic Eastern Red-Backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus). — Oecologia 2025