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The blue-spotted salamander (Ambystoma laterale) is a mole salamander native to the Great Lakes states and northeastern United States, and parts of Ontario [2] and Quebec [3] in Canada. Their range is known to extend to James Bay to the north, and southeastern Manitoba to the west.
This is a list of the amphibians that occur in the Shenandoah National Park in the Blue Ridge Mountains of western Virginia. Abundant refers to species that may be seen daily in its suitable habitat and season, and counted in relatively large numbers.
Ambystoma jeffersonianum [3] – Jefferson salamander; Ambystoma laterale [3] – blue-spotted salamander; Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum – tiger salamander [4] Plethodon cinereus – red-backed salamander
The spotted salamander is about 15–25 cm (5.9–9.8 in) long, [7] with females generally being larger than males. [8] They are stout, like most mole salamanders, and have wide snouts. [3] The spotted salamander's main color is black, but can sometimes be a blueish-black, dark gray, dark green, or even dark brown.
Reaching between 9.3 and 16 cm (3.7 and 6.3 in), the salamander is long and slender with many bluish-white markings. It is dark gray to gray-black and the area around the vent is black. Tremblay's salamander is a hybrid species of Jefferson salamanders (A. jeffersonianum) and blue-spotted salamanders (A. laterale).
The silvery salamander and Tremblay's salamander are now known through genetic testing to be polyploid females (only 2% of males survive and they are sterile). These most often possess two of each chromosome from the Jefferson salamander and one of each chromosome from the blue-spotted salamander, resulting in an LJJ genotype (also called a ...
The holotype for Desmognathus fuscus does not exist; Rafinesque (1820) described the type locality to be in the northern parts of the state of New York in small brooks. [6] [7] The spotted dusky salamander (D. conanti) and the flat-headed salamander (D. planiceps) were described in the 1950s but were later thought to be synonymous with the northern dusky salamander, but further studies have ...
Blue Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma leterale, classified as an endangered species by the State of New Jersey has been recorded as having occurred in the Watchung Reservation (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 1977). There is some uncertainty as to whether the Blue Spotted Salamander still exists in the Reservation.