Marbled salamander in boone county.
Marbled salamander behavior.
Ambystoma opacum the marbled salamander is found throughout most of the eastern united states from massachusetts west to central illinois southeastern missouri and oklahoma and eastern texas south to the gulf of mexico and the carolina coast it is absent from peninsular florida.
Too wild to be a pet my marbled salamander was fun to have but he was a little bit too skittish to be locked in a tank.
Family ambystomatidae are a medium sized chunky salamander reaching up to 4 25 inches in length 10 8 cm as adults they have a variable number of white bars on the body.
The marbled salamander is three to five inches long.
It has a black body with white or silvery gray markings.
Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.
Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance.
This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands.
This secretive salamander spends most of its time under rocks logs or forest debris preferring forested areas.
It may also occur in open sandy woods and on rocky dry hillsides.
This and many other amphibians require small fishless woodland.
The marbled salamander is one of many amphibians found in the bottomland hardwood forests of mississippi.
Marbled salamander fact sheet.
The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander.
Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows.
Marbled salamander behavior tip.
It has 11 12 costal grooves vertical grooves.
This behavior helps prevent eggs from hatching too early after any unseasonal.
I was worried many times that my cat would eat him.
Like other ambystomatids these salamanders spend most of their time underground in burrows and are infrequently seen outside of the breeding season.
The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white.
A small stout bodied salamander this species is easily identified by its distinct black and white patterning across its entire body.
They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum.
It gets its name from the white or silver bands that cover the black bodies of adult salamanders.
Marbled salamanders ambystoma opacum urodela.
The female has gray markings and the male has white markings.
Disjunct populations are found in eastern missouri central illinois in northwest ohio.
