They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum.
Marbled salamander adaptations.
Habitat photo for marbled salamander courtesy of rebecca chalmers.
It spends most of its time in a burrow in leaf litter or under bark and logs.
The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white.
Eggs are laid in the fall under coarse woody debris while the pools are dry.
Breeding site fidelity and dispersal there is some evidence of breeding site fidelity among adults williams 1973 scott 1994.
They live for about 8 years to 10 years on average.
It can be found in a variety of habitats from moist sandy areas to dry hillsides.
Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance.
The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander.
Disjunct populations are found in eastern missouri central illinois in northwest ohio.
Marbled salamander distribution in massachusetts based on the natural heritage database records from 1980 2006.
This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands.
Having an overall dark gray or black body the marbled salamander gets its name from the 4 7 white.
Deciduous and mixed forests adjacent to vernal pools.
Even other relatively bigger amphibians also prey on marbled salamanders.
The marbled salamander lives in forests and woodlands.
The marbled salamander is one of the smaller ambystomatid mole salamander species found in north carolina with adults only reaching lengths between 3 4 inches.
Marbled salamanders have a long life comparatively.
Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows.
Almost all carnivorous and omnivorous species of animal kingdom are predators of marbled salamanders.
Female guards the eggs until pool is flooded.
As with many ambystomatids the marbled salamander is a relatively stocky species.
Diet adult marbled salamanders eat invertebrates including earthworms slugs snails centipedes and a variety of insects.
When something snags its tail the salamander will drop its tail and run away.
Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.
