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Ambystoma opacum (Marbled Salamander)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The marbled salamander (Ambystoma opacum) is a species of mole salamander found in the eastern United States.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
22
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
47
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 42.62
EDGE Score: 3.78

Attributes

Adult Length [2]  5.0 inches (12.7 cm)
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Litter Size [3]  100
Litters / Year [2]  1
Maximum Longevity [3]  11 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Temporary Pools
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [3]  3 years 6 months
Male Maturity [3]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Amphibiocapillaria tritonispunctati[4]
Fessisentis acutulus[4]
Fessisentis necturorum[4]
Megalodiscus americanus[4]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
2Oliveira, Brunno Freire; São-Pedro, Vinícius Avelar; Santos-Barrera, Georgina; Penone, Caterina; C. Costa, Gabriel. (2017) AmphiBIO, a global database for amphibian ecological traits. Sci. Data.
3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0