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Spotted Salamander

Ambystoma maculatum

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Field Notes

Description:

Recent metamorph... its spots are little speckles at this age.

Habitat:

Spotted in a dried-up swampy area under a little log in Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia.

Reference Links:

Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802), Spotted Salamander

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Comments (3)
keithp2012
I remember raising these once they morph they become little gluttons :)
marylou.wildlife
Wow... that's very interesting. I've heard that larval spotted salamanders can be cannibalistic and feed on other salamanders... but I can't say I have heard of an adult doing so!
ambientidm
one of my favorite pets as a kid was a very large spotted salamander i found a smaller one at the same time but one day the little one was gone we later learned that the big one ate him i must have had the big one as a pet for at least two or three years

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Scales and Slime of the Southeast
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PublishedAugust 27, 2011

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