Marbled Salamander Eggs

It gets its name from the white or silver bands that cover the black bodies of adult salamanders.

Marbled salamander eggs.

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. Petranka 1998 these animals are found in the following types. Adult marbled salamanders breed only in dried up pools ponds and ditches and females lay their eggs under the leaves there. Larvae take small aquatic animals zooplankton but larger individuals will take eggs and larvae of other amphibians as well.

The eggs hatch after the ponds refill. 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. Marbled salamander fact sheet the marbled salamander ambystoma opacum also called the banded salamander is a member of the mole salamander family. A marbled salamander larva.

New hampshire rule chapters wt 100 800. 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. 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. Marbled salamander habitat is indirectly managed through wetland and water resource protection forestry management regulations i e new hampshire rsa 482 a.

Females will lay about 30 females will lay about 30 100 eggs in a depression on land usually beneath a log or leaf litter. Marbled salamanders ambystoma opacum this female marbled salamander is seen are scientifically very interesting but also laying eggs in a moist rotten log. The marbled salamander feeds primarily on terrestrial invertebrates such as worms spiders snails centipedes and a variety of insects.