What is "climbing salamander"

n. any of several North American salamanders adapted for climbing with well-developed limbs and long somewhat squared-off toes

Climbing salamanders is the common name for plethodontid (lungless) salamanders of the genus Aneides. As this name suggests, most of these species have prehensile tails and are as mobile up a tree as in a stream. All six species inhabit mountain ecosystems, and all but two are found primarily in the mountains of California.