Mabee's Salamander
| Mabee's Salamander | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Division: | Chordata |
| Class: | Lissamphibia |
| Order: | Caudata |
| Family: | Ambystomatidae |
| Genus: | Ambystoma |
| Species: | A. mabeei |
| Binomial name | |
| Ambystoma mabeei (Bishop, 1928) |
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Mabee's Salamander (Ambystoma mabeei) can be found in tupelo and cypress bottoms in pinewoods, open fields, and lowland deciduous forest (Behler and King 1979). Pine savannahs, low wet woods, and swamps (Martof et al. 1980). It usually burrows near breeding ponds. Eggs are attached to submerged plant material or bottom debris of acidic, fishless ponds in or near pine stands (Behler and King 1979). In Virginia, breeds in fish-free vernal pond in a large clear-cut area and in ephemeral sinkhole ponds up to 1.5 m deep, within bottomland hardwood forest mixed with pine (Mitchell 1991). Larvae develop in the ponds. Distances moved into terrestrial habitat are unknown but probably greater than 150 meters.
[edit] Habitat
The species is found in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. The total adult population is unknown but is probably at least 10,000.
[edit] References
- Hammerson & Mitchell (2004). Ambystoma mabeei. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 09 May 2006. Database entry includes a range map and a brief justification of why this species is of least concern
