Marbled Salamander Fetures Labled

This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands.

Marbled salamander fetures labled. It is a threatened species in michigan. 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 stocky boldly banded salamander. 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.

The marbled salamander can be found from southern new hampshire to northern florida and west to southern illinois southeast oklahoma and east texas. They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum. The belly may be black or brownish black occasionally with some light speckling. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows.

A female marbled salamander guarding her clutch of eggs within a dry portion of a mendon swamp. Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance. 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. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.