Marbled Salamander Eggs

Marbled salamander habitat is indirectly managed through wetland and water resource protection forestry management regulations i e new hampshire rsa 482 a.

Marbled salamander eggs.

Marbled salamanders breed in autumn unlike most other mole salamanders which breed in winter and migrate to wetlands during before a good rain to court and mate. Marbled salamander eggs under log two friends from the museum megan and melissa invited me to tag along with them yesterday as they did some fieldwork for a future workshop. Larvae take small aquatic animals zooplankton but larger individuals will take eggs and larvae of other amphibians as well. Marbled salamanders ambystoma opacum this female marbled salamander is seen are scientifically very interesting but also laying eggs in a moist rotten log.

Adult marbled salamanders breed only in dried up pools ponds and ditches and females lay their eggs under the leaves there. Best management practices for erosion control on timber harvesting operations in new. It gets its name from the white or silver bands that cover the black bodies of adult salamanders. Adults take terrestrial invertebrates such as worms insects centipedes and mollusks snails slugs.

A marbled salamander larva. Females will lay about 30 females will lay about 30 100 eggs in a depression on land usually beneath a log or leaf litter. New hampshire rule chapters wt 100 800. Petranka 1998 these animals are found in the following types.

Marbled salamander fact sheet the marbled salamander ambystoma opacum also called the banded salamander is a member of the mole salamander family. Megan made a great find as she and melissa were turning over logs at the edge of a vernal pool looking for salamanders some viable marbled salamander eggs. Mating takes place on land and then the females will move to dried vernal pools or other soon to be flooded areas to lay eggs.