Searching for hellbenders

Photo By/Credit

Gary Peeples/USFWS

Date Shot/Created

08/22/2017

Media Usage Rights/License

Public Domain

Image

A biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service snorkels in search of eastern hellbenders in North Carolina.

Ecosystem

River/stream

Species

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis

Subject tags

Amphibians

Rivers and streams

Wildlife restoration

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