Black And White Marbled Salamander

Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.

Black and white marbled salamander. Sporting white or gray bands across its body this secretive species is known to hide out beneath leaves and logs. The marbled salamander has a large tail that is about 40 percent of their whole body. The marbled salamander has a black body with white or grey band markings on its sides back and tail. This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands.

Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows. The marbled salamander is a stocky medium sized salamander marbled salamanders reach an adult size of 3 5 to 5 inches in length. They are gray to black in color with silvery white cross bands on males and grayish cross bands on females. Their bellies are black.

Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance. A small stout bodied salamander this species is easily identified by its distinct black and white patterning across its entire body. Because of their markings they have the word marbled in their name. The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander.

The marbled salamander is a relatively common resident throughout north carolina. They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum. The marbled salamander is one of many amphibians found in the bottomland hardwood forests of mississippi. Photo by kevin stohlgren.

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.