Black And White Marbled Salamander

The marbled salamander has a large tail that is about 40 percent of their whole body.

Black and white marbled salamander. This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands. A small stout bodied salamander this species is easily identified by its distinct black and white patterning across its entire body. The marbled salamander is a relatively common resident throughout north carolina. It has short limbs with four toes a broad snout and black eyes.

Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance. The marbled salamander has a black body with white or grey band markings on its sides back and tail. They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum. The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white.

Photo by kevin stohlgren. They are gray to black in color with silvery white cross bands on males and grayish cross bands on females. Their bellies are black. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows.

Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus. The marbled salamander is one of many amphibians found in the bottomland hardwood forests of mississippi. The body is black with light bands of varying widths running across the back. 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 stocky boldly banded salamander.