Marbled Salamander Education

The marbled salamander is classified as a nongame species with no open season.

Marbled salamander education.

Habitat marbled salamanders share much of the same old growth deciduous forest habitat with spotted salamanders but are seasonally differentiated by breeding in the fall opposed to spotted salamanders which breed in the winter and early spring. One reason is that they are nocturnal active at night and hide by day under vegetation and rotten logs. It is unlawful for any person to take or have in possession any nongame mammal or bird unless that person has a collection license or is collecting fewer than 5 reptiles or fewer than 25 amphibians that are not endangered threatened or special concerned species. The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white.

Family ambystomatidae the mole salamanders spend much of the year in the soil or under rocks or logs. Like all amphibians they require water to complete their life cycle surviving dry times by burrowing deep into the soil. Crossbands may be complete or incomplete. The latin word opacum means shaded dark obscure or dim and refers to the adult dorsal color.

Marbled salamanders are found throughout the eastern us but are absent from se georgia peninsular fl the higher elevations of the appalachians. Females lay their eggs near a pond curl protectively around them then wait until rains make the pond. They breed in spring. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.

Survivorship of marbled salamander adults and recently metamorphosed animals was low in 100 m2 enclosures in clearcuts compared to enclosures in adjacent forests p. Unlike many of its close relatives this salamander breeds in the autumn instead of early spring and on land instead of in water. Most larvae transform into the adult form by late summer. As marbled salamander breeding season begins residents are encouraged to implement precautions to prevent accidental salamander mortalities at in ground swimming pools and to report their sightings of a state.

Mike marchand photo adult marbled salamanders are dark stout salamanders with gray crossbands. The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander. Jefferson salamander ambystoma jeffersonianum state threatened blue spotted salamander ambystoma laterale spotted salamander ambystoma maculatum marbled salamander ambystoma opacum silvery. This young marbled salamander is beginning to show the light colored crossbands across its back.