Can someone identify this salamander?

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SwampFox
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Can someone identify this salamander?

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Can anyone identify this salamander from this POORLY taken photograph? it looked like a barred tiger salamander but i didnt know they were in tehachapi.
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Btw I was told by my friend Jarron Lucas that if it was a barred tiger salamander that he would have to enter it into a database because that's the first one found there in a while or something
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Will you post a larger picture?
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If I try it will be so blurry you wouldn't be able to see anything
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A. tigrinum is introduced to the wastewater treatment ponds in Tehachapi. Metamorphs emerge in numbers on rainy nights and are suddenly noticed by residents. The local newspaper ran an article on them a few years ago.

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Tiger Salamanders are extremely variable in pattern. This one is also from Tehachapi and looks a lot different.
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Thank you! I found it at that one place ;) , which by the sign that reads "waste water"(or something similar) probably means its a Waste water treatment pond haha. Are they common?
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