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Last week was Plethodontid Week on Twitter. It’s a week to celebrate how cool the family Plethodontidae is! Here are some of the highlighted tweets.

I’m decreeing this Plethodontid week, at least on my twitter. So to start off, here’s a juvenile Desmognathus aeneus. #plethodontidweek pic.twitter.com/iKp8Cx3z3d

— Mary Kate O'Donnell (@BioMechanista) November 13, 2017

Thanks Mary Kate O’Donnell for creating this week!

I’m used to flipping over logs to find sallys, love seeing them climbin around in the tropics! Like these Bolitoglossa cuna #plethodontidweek pic.twitter.com/V3eMHdiqpD

— Sofia Prado-Irwin (@sofiaraye) November 15, 2017

Look at that mustache!

Desmognathus ocoee enjoying a neck massage by a helpful Gyrinophilus porphyriticus pal. #PlethodontidWeek pic.twitter.com/DLsjMJAr40

— Stephen Deban (@StephenDeban) November 16, 2017

I’ll take your word for it bud.

Bolitoglossa dunni: the sparkly-footed and sadly endangered Dunn's Mushroomtongue #Salamander, Depto. Cortés, #Honduras #PlethodontidWeek pic.twitter.com/VeYcIm0T3R

— Erich Hofmann (@ErichPHofmann) November 15, 2017

this salamander is a fungi.

Beautiful salamanders! We found this little belli on our 2016 Mexico trip 😍#plethodontidweek pic.twitter.com/JdPkvs6zOg

— Britt White (@BWhite24) November 14, 2017

So darn cute

Very animated Bolitoglossa biseriata from Panama! Can never get over those adorable mittens. #plethodontidweek pic.twitter.com/0b9TwFWpZa

— Sofia Prado-Irwin (@sofiaraye) November 14, 2017

I wonder if you can train it to roll over.

May I present, for your #plethodontidweek viewing pleasure, P. ruber. Found in PA creek pic.twitter.com/qtIaP0lCJu

— Nicole Strauss (@NStrauss11) November 14, 2017

I just really like Red Salamanders

It's a worm! No, it's a slug! No, it's Oedipina uniformis, a plethodontid salamander that has a snout-vent length 25% of its total length. Found with @my9391 in Costa Rica, January 2014. #plethodontidweek #herpsci #limbreduced #NowThatsWhatICallATailVolume1 pic.twitter.com/KHc8KISxpX

— Aaron Griffing (@AaronHGriffing) November 14, 2017

That’s some tail there buddy

Did you think someone with my twitter handle would not be posting pictures for #PlethodontidWeek? Well you were wrong, I've just been waiting for my time to shine (and access to my pictures), so here's a likely very long thread of adorable #salamanders pic.twitter.com/ABIWJ0YvoN

— Nick Caruso (@PlethodoNick) November 15, 2017

Read the comments for TONS from our former herper of the week.

It is #PlethodontidWeek so I had to show these illustrations I did of two beautiful endangered species of neotropical salamanders from Venezuela: Bolitoglossa borburata and Bolitoglossa guaracamalensis #amphibians #salamanders #sciart pic.twitter.com/pBKyPXdE67

— Gabriel N. U. (@SerpenIllus) November 15, 2017

We even got some art for Plethodontid Week.