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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 ]
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 ...
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Fisher. P. pennanti (Erxleben, 1777) Northern North America: Size: 75–120 cm (30–47 in) long, plus 31–41 cm (12–16 in) tail [20] Habitat: Forest [21] Diet: Primarily eats small to medium mammals, birds, and carrion [21] LC Unknown [21]
Cryptobranchoidea (Giant salamanders) Family Common names Example species. Example image Cryptobranchidae: Giant salamanders: Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) Hynobiidae: Asiatic salamanders: Hida salamander (Hynobius kimurae) Salamandroidea (Advanced salamanders) Ambystomatidae: Mole salamanders: Marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum ...
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 ...
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
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 balloon frog, Uperodon systoma (Schneider, 1799) Melanobatrachus indicus (Beddome, 1878) Kaloula baleata (Müller In Oort and Müller, 1833) Painted frog, Kaloula pulchra (Gray, 1831) Asian painted frog, Kaloula pulchra; Kaloula assamensis (Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta, 2005) Sri Lankan bullfrog, Kaloula taprobanica (Parker, 1934)