Marbled salamanders occur from southern new england to northern florida and west to southern illinois southeastern oklahoma and eastern texas.
Marbled salamander fun facts.
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Marbled salamander facts and information.
4 10 years or more.
The male marbled salamanders arrive before the female ones at the prospective sites of breeding during breeding season.
Apart from their breeding season they hardly come in contact with others of its species.
Native to south dakota.
They are extremely unsocial and lonely creatures.
They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum.
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The marbled salamander is relatively small growing three to five inches in length.
This includes greenland the canadian arctic islands and all of the north american as far south as the highlands of central mexico.
Adults are black with silvery crossbands along their bodies.
Disjunct populations are found near the southern perimeters of lakes erie and michigan as well as in southwestern missouri and along the northern border between ohio and indiana.
Juvenile marbled salamanders hatch early compared to most salamanders and gain a size advantage by feeding and growing for several months before the jefferson salamanders and spotted salamanders hatch later in the spring.
Marbled salamanders are very interesting species in terms of behavior.
Living in the nearctic biogeographic province the northern part of the new world.
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