Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma tigrinum
Summary: This is the most widespread salamander in the Chicago region, with numerous records available for most counties.
Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
The common Tiger salamander is black with yellow markings that are highly variable in size and shape. The belly of the Tiger salamander is greenish-brown.
Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
Description: 3" to 6" snout-vent length; to about 12½" overall. Color variable, ranging from golden yellow through olive green to black.
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Came scuttling out of the woods in the rain the other day...froze when he realized I was there allowing me to grab a picture.
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Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) Species Profile: Housing, Diet, Temperament, and Reproduction
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Tiger Salamander Facts
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Tiger Salamander
The Tiger Salamander (classified by scientists as Ambystoma tigrinum) ranges from 6 to 13 inches in length. It is thought to be the largest land-dwelling salamander in the world.
Tiger Salamanders, although abundant, are one of the most secretive salamanders in our state. Nearly all of their time is spent underground in burrows of other animals or burrows they have constructed themselves.
Tiger Salamander Stats
Scientific Name: Ambystoma tigrinum
Family: Ambystomatidae
Adult Size: A large terrestrial salamander that reaches a total length of 13 inches.
Tiger Salamander Range
Fast Facts
Type: Amphibian Diet: Carnivore Average life span in the wild: 12 to 15 years Size: 7 to 14 in (18 to 35 cm) Weight: 4.4 oz (126 g) Did you know?
Tiger salamander
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Geographical Range
Southern Canada to Mexico
Habitat
Various habitats, including mountain forests, moist meadows, dry brushlands
Scientific Name
Ambystoma tigrinum
Conservation Status
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Some tiger salamanders may become sexually mature while retaining larval stage morphological features, a condition known as pedomorphosis.
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This page contains samples from our picture files on the Tiger Salamander. These images are intended to communicate the sense of awe and wonder I have for these amazing beings.
The Tiger Salamander is spread almost all over the United States, in southern parts of Canada and in Mexico. It inhabits dry areas, forests, deserts etc.
Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
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Tiger salamanders have a fascinating and adaptable life process. Typically, tiger salamander larvae feed and grow during the spring and early summer and metamorphose two to five months after hatching. However, some populations never metamorphose.
Tiger salamanders inhabit a wide range of areas extending from coast to coast across the United States and into Canada, and from central Nebraska to northeastern Mexico. They are distributed throughout Texas except for the eastern quarter.
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RangeThe California tiger salamander can be found in the Central Valley of California and its bordering foothills, coastal grasslands and seasonal wetlands.
Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma tigrinum
Tiger Salamanders are often seen at night after heavy rains, especially during breeding season. They live beneath debris near water or in crayfish or mammal burrows.
Tiger salamander
Class: Amphibia
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed; COSEWIC: Tiger Salamanders were last seen in Ontario in 1915.
The Eastern Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum, is found in the panhandle. Its dark body is marked by yellowish mottling. It reaches a length of 13".
Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum
The Tiger Salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum covers a wide range of areas extending nearly coast to coast in North America.
Tiger Salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum)
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California tiger salamander (Ambystoma californiense)
Due to the low numbers of this species in the wild and its nocturnal habits, the California tiger salamander is a rarely seen amphibian. The... More 5 Images 0 videos ...
Eastern Tiger Salamander - Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum
Description: 5 7/8 - 9 ¾" (15 - 35 cm). This is our largest salamander. Highly irregular splotches olive to yellow color on black dorsum. Olive/yellow dorsum.
The Eastern Tiger Salamander appears to be absent from the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin, and otherwise occurs in the southern two-thirds of the state.
a group of North American amphibians that include the tiger salamander and the axolotl. Salamanders look like lizards, but are not. They start out living in the water, and then move out onto the land.
Axolotls were once believed to be of the same species as tiger salamanders; while they're close relatives, though, they're not the same.
Others, such as the tiger salamander, lose their gills as they grow older and develop lungs to breathe air.
The Mexican axolotl actually stays in a permanent Laval form of the tiger salamander. In China and Japan the giant salamander may reach a length of over 5 ft. long.
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Uncommon visitor to Lagunita when water is present; has been seen feeding on California tiger salamanders there. May forage year-round for small mammals in grassy habitats, though less frequently than the Great Blue Heron.
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From this table I learned that Mesa Verde National Park contains a bunch of herps that I have yet to encounter anywhere, including Tiger Salamanders, Western Chorus Frogs, Variable Skinks, Milk Snakes, Smooth Green Snakes, and Prairie Rattlesnakes.
Reptiles, which can comprise large parts of a diet, include snakes such as racers, gopher snakes and striped whipsnakes, and lizards. Amphibians may include tiger salamanders and toads.
It may also occur in the Western varieties of the North American tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) under certain environmental conditions.
 See also: Tiger, Salamander, Newt, Snake, Burro
  
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