Mole salamanders are facultatively paedomorphic meaning that they may retain larval characteristics as adults and continue to live in water or complete metamorphosis and live in the terrestrial environment.
Marbled salamander characteristics.
The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white.
Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows.
The belly may be black or brownish black occasionally with some light speckling.
Like other ambystomatids these salamanders spend most of their time underground in burrows and are infrequently seen outside of the breeding season.
Adults are found in forested habitats and seem to prefer sandy pine forests more than the marbled salamander.
The marbled salamander varies in length from 9 10 7 cm 3 5 4 2 in.
Characteristics the marbled salamander is three to five inches long.
The marbled salamander is a medium sized 3 4 5 inches adult length thick bodied salamander with white or gray bands across a black to dark brown black body.
They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum.
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 decision to undergo.
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.
Marbled salamanders ambystoma opacum urodela.
It has a black body with white or silvery gray markings.
Marbled salamanders spend most of their lives in self excavated burrows or those dug by small mammals and are most commonly found in deciduous or mixed pine forests on sandy soil.
Disjunct populations are found in eastern missouri central illinois in northwest ohio.
Range the marbled salamander can be found from southern new hampshire to northern florida and west to.
This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands.
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 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.
