Male And Female Marbled Salamander

Sporting white or gray bands across its body this secretive species is known to hide out beneath leaves and logs.

Male and female marbled salamander.

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. Amends 312 iac 9 8 5 governing commercial fishing on inland water. Males typically have larger cloaca or openings on the underside of the body that serve reproduction. Fe males are larger and have sil very gray cross bands.

The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander. The marbled salamander is three to five inches long. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows. We used image analysis techniques to examine sexual dichromatism in the marbled salamander ambystoma opacum gravenhorst 1807.

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. Male and female salamanders housed together rarely breed. Marbled salamanders are very defensive about their territory. Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance.

This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands. It has 11 12 costal grooves vertical grooves. The male marbled salamanders have white bands and the female s bands are more silver grey. Dur ing the breed ing sea son the cross bands be come very white and glands around the male s cloaca be come swollen.

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. 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. It has a black body with white or silvery gray markings. The female has gray markings and the male has white markings.

Females tend to be larger with fuller bodies. The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white. Con sid ered sex u ally di mor phic males are smaller than fe males and have sil very white cross bands. 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 marbled salamander is a relatively common resident throughout north carolina. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.