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Their habitats are damp woodlands, forests, and places with soft and wet soil. Seasonally flooded areas are essential for breeding, but the adult salamanders are terrestrial. Like many salamanders, marbled salamanders have poison glands to deter predators. [5] The marbled salamander is the state salamander of North Carolina. [6]
Marbled salamander: Adults are 3.5 to 5 inches (8.9 to 12.7 cm) long and are colored black or dark gray with white or gray markings. Considered an endangered species in Michigan. [3] Ambystoma texanum: Small-mouth salamander: Adults are 4.3 to 7 inches (11 to 18 cm) long and are colored black, gray or brown. Considered an endangered species in ...
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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 ...
Marbled salamander (state salamander) Ambystoma opacum: 2013 [18] Ohio: Spotted salamander (state amphibian) Ambystoma maculatum: 2010 [19] American bullfrog (state frog) Rana catesbeiana: 2010 [20] Oklahoma: American bullfrog: Rana catesbeiana: 1997 [21] Pennsylvania: Eastern hellbender: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis: 2019 [22] South Carolina ...
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 ...
Long-toed salamander, Ambystoma macrodactylum LC (Santa Cruz long-toed salamander, A. m. croceum: E) Spotted salamander, Ambystoma maculatum LC Western tiger salamander, Ambystoma mavortium (Sonoran tiger salamander, A. m. stebbinsi: E) Marbled salamander, Ambystoma opacum LC Mole salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum LC
The California giant salamander's tail is approximately 40% of the total length of the salamander and is laterally compressed. The head, back, and sides of the salamander have a marbled or reticulate pattern of dark blotches on a light brown or brassy-colored background.