Necturus manculosus

I am doing a project for my Master Herpetology course and I can not find what the average snout to vent length is for the common mudpuppy. Every source I can find only has total length. Does anyone know?

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Does it need to be exact? If not I would use multiple pictures and figure out an approximate ratio of the body and tail length and use the total length to find the body length.

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not exact but with some sort of source would be nice… the juveniles average 14-15 snout to vet with an average total length of 21-25mm. But that is the only source i can find that mentions any sort of stv length.

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I found a brief mention of it here on page 80.
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Edit: I found another mention here on the second page. I don’t know what ca. means but it might be helpful.
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Thank you!

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There were also lots of mentions of it here but I don’t see the actual data. If you have the time you might be able to find something.

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I appreciate the help for sure.

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I’m glad to help.

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