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Tarahumara Salamander
Ambystoma rosaceum Taylor, 1941
Ambystoma rosaceum, the Tarhumara salamander, is a medium-sized adaptable salama…
Marbled Salamander
Ambystoma opacum (Gravenhorst, 1807)
The marbled salamander, Ambystoma opacum, is a small sexually dimorphic mole sal…
Mole Salamander
Ambystoma talpoideum (Holbrook, 1838)
Ambystoma talpoideum, the mole salamander, is a stocky US salamander with specif…
Mountain Stream Salamander
Ambystoma altamirani Dugès, 1895
Ambystoma altamirani, the mountain stream salamander, is a metamorphosing salama…
Northwestern Salamander
Ambystoma gracile (Baird, 1859)
Ambystoma gracile is a salamander with two subspecies, varying neoteny with alti…
Long-toed Salamander
Ambystoma macrodactylum Baird, 1850
Ambystoma macrodactylum (long-toed salamander) is a widely distributed North Ame…
Western Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma mavortium Baird, 1850
Ambystoma mavortium, the barred tiger salamander, is a large North American sala…
Axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum (Shaw & Nodder, 1798)
Ambystoma mexicanum, the axolotl, is a neotenic salamander widely used in regene…
California Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma californiense Gray, 1853
Ambystoma californiense, the California tiger salamander, is a large endemic Cal…
Michoacan Stream Salamander
Ambystoma rivulare (Taylor, 1940)
Ambystoma rivulare, the Michoacan Stream Salamander, is a mole salamander endemi…
Spotted Salamander
Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)
Spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) is a stout amphibian that breeds in for…
Jefferson Salamander
Ambystoma jeffersonianum (Green, 1827)
Ambystoma jeffersonianum, the Jefferson salamander, is a burrowing nocturnal mol…
Small-mouthed Salamander
Ambystoma texanum (Matthes, 1855)
This summary covers the physical traits, habitat, and range of the small-mouth s…
Eastern Tiger Salamander
Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825)
Ambystoma tigrinum (tiger salamander) is a widely distributed North American ter…
Streamside Salamander
Ambystoma barbouri Kraus & Petranka, 1989
Ambystoma barbouri, the streamside salamander, is a medium ambystomatid salamand…
Blue-spotted Salamander
Ambystoma laterale Hallowell, 1856
This is the full species description for the blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma …
Cope's Giant Salamander
Dicamptodon copei Nussbaum, 1970
Dicamptodon copei is a rarely metamorphosing neotenic salamander that stays larv…
Pacific Giant Salamander
Dicamptodon tenebrosus (Baird & Girard, 1852)
Dicamptodon tenebrosus, the coastal giant salamander, is North America’s largest…
California Giant Salamander
Dicamptodon ensatus (Eschscholtz, 1833)
Dicamptodon ensatus, the California giant salamander, is an endemic vocal salama…
Two-toed Amphiuma
Amphiuma means Garden, 1821
Amphiuma means, the two-toed amphiuma, is the longest US salamander, found in aq…
Three-toed Amphiuma
Amphiuma tridactylum Cuvier, 1827
Amphiuma tridactylum is a large eel-like salamander with tiny three-toed legs, f…
Hellbender
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille, 1801)
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis, the hellbender, is the largest amphibian native to…
Japanese Giant Salamander
Andrias japonicus (Temminck, 1836)
Andrias japonicus, the Japanese giant salamander, is the world's third-largest a…
Siberian Salamander
Salamandrella keyserlingii Dybowski, 1870
Salamandrella keyserlingii is a cold-tolerant salamander native to Northeast Asi…
