FIGURE 12. Siren sphagnicola habitats. A in Unraveling Siren (Caudata: Sirenidae) systematics and description of a small seepage specialist

FIGURE 12. Siren sphagnicola habitats. A Type locality at Junior Walton Pond, Okaloosa Co., Florida, showing the feeding stream channel lined with thick muck and vegetation. B Type locality at Junior Walton Pond, Okaloosa Co., Florida, showing sphagnum mats and assorted vegetation covering a thick layer of muck and root masses. C Surface of a sphagnum bog on Bull Pen Branch, Okaloosa Co., Florida, where dense vegetation and 60 cm of muck provide ideal habitat for S. sphagnicola. D Seep at the head of Krul Lake, Santa Rosa Co., Florida, where shallow surface water flows over 15‒90 cm of fluid muck covered by grassy vegetation and sphagnum mats. E & F Hillside seepage pools along Carr Spring Branch, Okaloosa Co., Florida, where intermittent pools are deceptively deep and filled with fluid muck, like many other localities inhabited by S. sphagnicola.