Marbled Salamander Fetures Labled

Marbled salamanders like this pregnant female found at an attleboro tennis court often must cross through yards while migrating to their breeding sites during late summer nights.

Marbled salamander fetures labled.

The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white. A female marbled salamander guarding her clutch of eggs within a dry portion of a mendon swamp. The belly may be black or brownish black occasionally with some light speckling. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.

It is also found around lake erie and lake michigan and in south west missouri and along the northern border of ohio and indiana. The marbled salamander is a medium sized 3 4 5 inches adult length thick bodied salamander with white or gray bands across a black to dark brown black body. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows. They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum.

Unlike many of its close relatives this salamander breeds in the autumn instead of early spring and on land instead of in water. The marbled salamander can be found from southern new hampshire to northern florida and west to southern illinois southeast oklahoma and east texas. It is a threatened species in michigan. Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance.