Marbled Salamander Juviniles

Marbled salamanders like this pregnant female found at an attleboro tennis court often must cross through yards while migrating to their breeding sites during late summer nights.

Marbled salamander juviniles.

Juvenile marbled salamanders that were tested under laboratory conditions with conspecifics and with juvenile mole salamanders did not show any overt aggression perhaps indicating that such behavioral interactions are not important for juveniles smyers et al 2001. A female marbled salamander guarding her clutch of eggs within a dry portion of a mendon swamp. About reptiles and amphibians in missouri. The body is black with light bands of varying widths running across the back.

They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum. The marbled salamander breeds from september to october in the northern part of its range and from october to december in the southern part of its range. The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.

Like other ambystomatids these salamanders spend most of their time underground in burrows and are infrequently seen outside of the breeding season. Marbled salamanders ambystoma opacum urodela. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows. The marbled salamander is one of many amphibians found in the bottomland hardwood forests of mississippi.

Adults can get around 4 inches on average. Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance. With proper care these salamanders can live 8 10 years in captivity. We have baby marbled salamanders for sale.

The marbled salamander mates and lays its eggs on land. Like other mole salamanders marbled salamanders are predators of smaller creatures but though they are voracious predators of insects worms and slugs they along with their eggs and juvenile forms provide food for many other hungry animals. Naturally found throughout southeastern america ranging from georgia florida and around the higher areas of the appalachian mountains. The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white.

The female lays 50 200 eggs one at a time in a depression under a log or in a clump of vegetation that will fill with water when it. This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands.