They are gray to black in color with silvery white cross bands on males and grayish cross bands on females.
Marbled salamander description.
Marbled salamander in boone county.
The marbled salamander is one of many amphibians found in the bottomland hardwood forests of mississippi.
The marbled salamander lives in forests and woodlands.
Marbled salamanders reach an adult size of 3 5 to 5 inches in length.
The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander.
Like other ambystomatids these salamanders spend most of their time underground in burrows and are infrequently seen outside of the breeding season.
They have smooth dark gray to black skin or even deep purple above with a gray belly.
Diet adult marbled salamanders eat invertebrates including earthworms slugs snails centipedes and a variety of insects.
The marbled salamander is a nocturnal animal which means they are only active in the nighttime.
Therefor the marbled salamander is hardly seen by people.
Disjunct populations are found in eastern missouri central illinois in northwest ohio.
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 bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white.
This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands.
Marbled salamanders ambystoma opacum urodela.
The body is black with light bands of varying widths running across the back.
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.
The cross bands can vary dramatically between individuals with some individuals being striped.
The marbled salamander ambystoma opacum is a species of mole salamander found in the eastern united states.
These crossbands vary in shape and also in color from silver white to gray.
A small stout bodied salamander this species is easily identified by its distinct black and white patterning across its entire body.
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.
They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum.
The marbled salamander is a stocky medium sized salamander.
Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.
The back is generally shiny jet black while the belly is plain black.
It can be found in a variety of habitats from moist sandy areas to dry hillsides.
It spends most of its time in a burrow in leaf litter or under bark and logs.
Light silver to white markings are on their back.
Marbled salamander ambystoma opacum description marbled salamanders reach a length of 4 to 5 inches 10 to 12 7 cm head and body.
