After the WCH, my friend, Rory Telemeco, and I took a day to explore Vancouver Island in the vicinity of Victoria. Luckily, on the ferry over from Vancouver we bumped into Kristiina Ovaska, a herpetologist who lives and works in Victoria. She was kind enough to show us her field site, where we flipped about a dozen of these species, which is more or less the West Coast version of Plethodon cinereus, the species I work on in Massachusetts. This species is slightly different in general form, and the dorsal stripe is wider and extends to the tip of the tail, unlike with P. cinereus. It's a pretty little 'mander.
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