Spotted Salamander
Ambystoma maculatum
Summary: Limited to the more heavily forested parts of the region. Still relatively common in northern LaPorte County and at a few Cook and Will County localities.
Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
There are approximately 500 known species of salamanders. This species is a kind of mole salamander,
a group of North American amphibians that include the tiger salamander and the axolotl.
Spotted Salamander
(Ambystoma maulatum)
DESCRIPTION: 6-9 3/4" (15.2-24.8 cm). Stoutly built, black, blue-black, dark gray, or dark brown above, with 2 irregular rows of round, yellow or orange spots beginning on head and extending to tail tip.
Spotted Salamander
Go underground and meet this salamander that's both large and common, yet so secretive it's rarely seen.
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Spotted Salamander
Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
Spotted Salamanders are slate colored with two irregular rows of rounded yellow spots on the back from the head onto the tail.
Finding Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) in Minnesota
It may surprise many Minnesotans to learn that seven species of salamanders reside in our state. The lives of these secretive amphibians rarely cross paths with our own.
Spotted salamanders look very similar to tiger salamanders. They may be distinguished from one another by the following: spotted salamanders have 1) rounded bright yellow spots arranged in two irregular rows down back and tail and (in some) a pair of ...
Spotted salamanders may be very abundant in appropriate wetland habitats.
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A spotted salamander egg mass.
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The spotted salamander is a mole salamander and spends most of its time underground. It needs areas with soil that is easy to burrow into. Some spotted salamanders can live to be 30 years old!
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Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
Description: A chunky bodied black or dark gray salamander with two rows of round yellow spots running from head to tail. Rarely, spots are tan or white, or even absent.
These spotted salamanders range over much of North America, from Prince Edward Island to south-central Ontario, and south to Georgia and eastern Texas.
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Yellow-spotted salamanders usually gather in woodland ponds or roadside ditches to breed.
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SPOTTED SALAMANDER
Ambystoma maculatum
INTRODUCTION
The spotted salamander is Rhode Island's most widespread mole salamander.
Spotted Salamander - Ambystoma maculatum
Description: 5 5/16 - 9" (13.5 - 23 cm). This species is quite distinct, with a chubby body, two rows of round yellow to orange spots and an otherwise black dorsum and gray belly.
Blue-spotted Salamander *
Ambystoma laterale
Reported from Bristol, Essex, Middlesex, Norfolk, and eastern Worcester counties.
Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma maculatum
The Spotted Salamander is one of the larger members of the mole salamander family reaching lengths of nearly 8 inches or more.
Spotted Salamander Ambystoma maculatum
Adult spotted salamanders have bright yellow spots on a dark black to bluish -black background. They average seven inches in length with no difference in body length between males and females (Hulse, 2001).
The Blue-spotted Salamander is perhaps the most abundant salamander in Wisconsin.
This attractively spotted salamander has the distinction of being named after the late Roger Conant, author of everyone's favorite field guide to herps of the eastern U.S.
The genus is restricted in its habitat to the western parts of the Palaearctic region and represented by four species only: the spotted salamander, S.
Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum)
Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
Marbled Salamander (Ambystoma opacum)
Mole Salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum)
Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
Mabee's Salamander (Ambystoma mabeei) ...
These cold-blooded animals typically have four legs, lay eggs in the water, and metamorphose from a water-breathing juvenile to an air-breathing adult. Frogs, toads, newts and salamanders are all amphibians. Here you will find spotted salamanders, ...
Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
Spotted Salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus)
Eastern Newt (Notophthalmus viridescens)
Mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus) ...
spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum)
squirrel treefrog (Hyla squirrela)
striped southern chorus frog (Pseudacris nigrita nigrita)
three-lined salamander (Eurycea guttolineata)
upland chorus frog (Pseudacris feriarum feriarum) ...
 See also: Salamander, Tiger, Tiger Salamander, Reptile, Newt
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