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The marbled salamander is a stout, black and white banded salamander. It exhibits sexual dimorphism with bands of females tending to be light gray, while those of males are bright white. Males also have a larger proportion of white dorsal surface area relative to females. [ 2 ]
Scientific name Common name Description Image Notes Ambystoma laterale: Blue-spotted salamander: Adults are 3.5 to 5.5 inches (8.9 to 14.0 cm) long and are colored black with turquoise or pale blue spots. Ambystoma maculatum: Spotted salamander: Adults are 4.3 to 9.8 inches (11 to 25 cm) long and are colored black or dark gray with round yellow ...
Common name Scientific name Status Notes Distribution Jefferson salamander: Ambystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827) Species of special concern Females of this species can form a unisexual form that cannot be identified to species level without DNA testing [3] Statewide, seemingly absent from near Philadelphia and the surrounding counties
The southern marbled newt or pygmy marbled newt (Triturus pygmaeus) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae.It is found in Portugal and Spain.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, water storage areas, ponds, open ...
The order name Urodela comes from the name Urodèles given by André Marie Constant Duméril in 1805, [2] it is derived from the Greek words οὐρά ourā́ "tail" and δῆλος dēlos "visible, conspicuous" because of their "persistent" tails. [97] Disagreement exists among different authorities as to the definition of the terms Caudata ...
Tico salamander (Bolitoglossa tica) Dwarf black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus folkertsi) Chamberlain's dwarf salamander (Eurycea chamberlaini) Blanco River springs salamander (Eurycea pterophila) Blanco blind salamander (Eurycea robusta) Valdina Farms salamander (Eurycea troglodytes) Southern moss salamander (Nototriton costaricense)
Enacted by law in 2013, the newest symbols of North Carolina are the state art medium, clay; the state fossil, the megalodon teeth; the state frog, the Pine Barrens tree frog; the state marsupial, the Virginia opossum; and the state salamander, the marbled salamander.
Amphiumidae are a family of salamanders. Members of the family are known as amphiumas. [101] These large salamanders are often mistaken for eels, hence the colloquial name "conger eels". [102] [103] Completely aquatic, these long salamanders can survive droughts by forming a mucous cocoon underground. They can live without food for up to three ...