Male And Female Marbled Salamander

Females tend to be larger with fuller bodies.

Male and female marbled salamander.

Dur ing the breed ing sea son the cross bands be come very white and glands around the male s cloaca be come swollen. Marbled salamanders are part of the mole salamander family which is a group of salamanders endemic to north america and the only genus in the. The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white. We used image analysis techniques to examine sexual dichromatism in the marbled salamander ambystoma opacum gravenhorst 1807.

However we can guarantee that someone very experienced with amphibians will attempt to select the specific salamander s you are requesting. The male marbled salamanders have white bands and the female s bands are more silver grey. We measured the average hue of white saddles on male and female marbled salamanders n 118 as well as the proportion of white dorsal surface area relative to the black dorsal surface area to determine the. Con sid ered sex u ally di mor phic males are smaller than fe males and have sil very white cross bands.

The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander. Amends 312 iac 9 8 5 governing commercial fishing on inland water. Almost all carnivorous and omnivorous species in the animal kingdom think the marbled salamanders make a delicious snack. They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum.

It has 11 12 costal grooves vertical grooves. The female has gray markings and the male has white markings. The marbled salamander is a relatively common resident throughout north carolina. Sexing your marbled salamander please feel free to request a male or female salamander or any combination thereof when you order our medium and adult sized amphibians but please be aware that we cannot guarantee the sex.

Sporting white or gray bands across its body this secretive species is known to hide out beneath leaves and logs. This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands. It has a black body with white or silvery gray markings. Marbled salamanders are very defensive about their territory.

This cloaca rule stands for tiger marbled and spotted salamanders but because salamanders can become obese in captivity males can often be mistaken for females. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows. Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.

The marbled salamander is three to five inches long. The marbled salamander looks like it just came out of the chrome plating shop with its metallic silvery white to gray bands on the dorsum of its black body.