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KTAR reported Dr. Andrew Baldwin, a faculty member at Mesa Community College, has discovered a new species of salamander in Arizona. Baldwin discovered the amphibian, known as Ensatina eschscholtzii klauberi or large-blotched Ensatina, near the Tonto Creek State Fish Hatchery in Payson in 2003.