Long-tailed salamander | Smithsonian's National Zoo

Conservation

Physical Description

Long-tailed salamanders are often yellow, but can range in color to red, orange and brown and have irregular dots and dashes�along their bodies and tails. They have large eyes, slender bodies and stout limbs.

Size

Long-tailed salamanders range in length from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters) long, with 60 percent of that length being their tails.

Native Habitat

Long-tailed salamanders range from southern New York, south to northern Alabama and west to Missouri. They can be found in creek beds, caves,...

Date: 2017-04-03 10:36:29
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Tiger Salamanders, Tiger Salamander Pictures, Tiger ...

During courtship, a male tiger salamander sometimes impersonates a female in order to sneak in and deposit his spermatophore on top of a rival male's.

Relative:

Size relative to a tea cup

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Tiger salamanders' markings are variable throughout their extensive range, but the most common marking resembles the vertically striped pattern of their mammalian namesake.

They are usually brown in color with brilliant yellow stripes or blotches over the length of their bodies. Their base color, however, can also be greenish or gray and their...

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DNR - Small-mouthed Salamander (Ambystoma texanum)

Small-mouthed Salamander (Ambystoma texanum)

Description: As its name implies, this species has a small head and a short, blunt snout. The background color is black, gray, or brown, with an irregular pattern of grayish blotches and spots over the head, back, and tail. Breeding individuals in ponds are often paler in color than they will appear later in summer. Adults are 4.3 to 7 inches (11 to 17.8 cm) long. Note: Small mouthed Salamanders...

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What is a Salamander? (with pictures) - wiseGEEK

A salamander is an amphibian in the order Caudata which has a lizardlike appearance, although salamanders lack the scales of true lizards. This order encompasses hundreds of individual salamander species and several large groupings, including sirens, salamanders without rear legs, and newts, a large group of salamanders found throughout the Northern hemisphere. These primordial creatures are...

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Tiger salamander videos, photos and facts - Ambystoma ...

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Tiger salamander biology

Adult tiger salamanders are usually terrestrial and spend most of their lives underground, either in a burrow they have dug themselves or in the burrow of another animal (1) (2) (3) (5) (6) (8) . Individuals of this species have been found up to two metres below the soil surface (2) . Members of the family to which the tiger salamander belongs, the Ambystomatidae, are...

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