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The spotted salamander or yellow-spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) is a mole salamander [2] ... and a toxic milky liquid it excretes when perturbed. This ...
Spotted salamanders do produce poisonous skin secretions, which allow them to taste bad to predators. For a human, these skin secretions are more irritating and would not kill an adult or even a ...
The blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale) is a mole salamander native to the Great Lakes states and northeastern United States, and parts of Ontario [2] and Quebec [3] in Canada. Their range is known to extend to James Bay to the north, and southeastern Manitoba to the west.
The spotted salamander (Amblystoma maculatum) lives in a symbiotic relationship with a green algae known as Oophila amblystomatis. The algal cells make their way into tissue cells throughout the embryo's body and appears to avoid rejection by activating genes which suppress the embryo's immune response.
Out of the 30 species of salamanders that call Western North Carolina home, perhaps the most mysterious is the spotted salamander.
Spotted salamanders do produce poisonous skin secretions, which allow them to taste bad to predators. For a human, these skin secretions are more irritating and would not kill an adult or even a ...
Most toxic amphibians are poisonous to touch or eat. These amphibians usually sequester toxins from animals and plants on which they feed, commonly from poisonous insects or poisonous plants. Except certain salamandrid salamanders that can extrude sharp venom-tipped ribs, [1] [2] and two species of frogs with venom-tipped bone spurs on their ...
The Idaho Legislature adopted the slimy creature as the state amphibian in 2015.