Marbled Salamander Maryland Salamanders

Black body with light crossbands.

Marbled salamander maryland salamanders.

They migrate to small pools of water after a rain event to breed. Maryland s salamanders and newts order caudata salamanders and newts are nocturnal and secretive animals with long slender bodies long tails and in most cases two pairs of legs. Salamander marbled ambystoma opacum stout. An adult marbled salamander in anne arundel co maryland 6 29 2008.

The body is black with light bands of varying widths running across the back. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus. Their life cycles can be totally aquatic totally terrestrial and in between spending time both on land and in water. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows.

The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white. Habitat photo for marbled salamander courtesy of rebecca chalmers deciduous and mixed forests adjacent to vernal pools. All amphibians noted below are native to maryland. 3 5 to 4 3 inches in length.

2 5 to 4 5 inches in length. Light line runs from eye to jaw. The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander. A small stout bodied salamander this species is easily identified by its distinct black and white patterning across its entire body.

As with many ambystomatids the marbled salamander is a relatively stocky species. Mary s co maryland 1 13 2018. Disjunct populations are found near the southern perimeters of lake erie and lake michigan as well as in southwestern missouri and along the northern border between ohio and indiana. Salamander northern dusky desmognathus fuscus grey or brown body with a light stripe on back.

They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbandson the dorsum. The marbled salamander is one of many amphibians found in the bottomland hardwood forests of mississippi. The eggs must be later submerged in rain or flood water to develop. Eggs are laid in the fall under coarse woody debris while the pools are dry.

Photo by bill hubick. 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. Description marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodiedand chubby in appearance. Mbp list more of this species a marbled salamander in st.

Marbled salamanders are found from southern new england to northern florida west across eastern texas and north through southeastern oklahoma and southern illinois.