Animalia > Chordata > Amphibia > Caudata > Ambystomatidae > Ambystoma > Ambystoma talpoideumAmbystoma talpoideum (Mole Salamander)Synonyms: Amblystoma talpoideum; Salamandra talpoidea The mole salamander (Ambystoma talpoideum) is a species of salamander found in much of the eastern and central United States, from Florida to Texas, north to Illinois, east to Kentucky, with isolated populations in Virginia and Indiana. Older sources often refer to this species as the tadpole salamander because some individuals remain in a neotenic state. This salamander lives among the leaf litter on the forest floor, migrating to ponds to breed. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 42.62 EDGE Score: 3.78 |
| Adult Length [2] | 4.803 inches (12.2 cm) | | Litter Size [3] | 350 | | Litters / Year [2] | 1 | | Maximum Longevity [3] | 9 years | | Nocturnal [1] | Yes | | Water Biome [1] | Lakes and Ponds, Temporary Pools |  | | Adult Weight [2] | 5.93 grams | | | Diet [1] | Carnivore | | | Female Maturity [3] | 2 years | | Male Maturity [3] | 2 years |
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IUCN Category |
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Species |
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Climate |
Land Use |
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Big Thicket Biosphere Reserve National Park |
II |
616880 |
Texas, United States |
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Carolinian-South Atlantic Biosphere Reserve |
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310228 |
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, United States |
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Central Gulf Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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40530 |
United States |
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Cumberland Island National Seashore |
II |
20629 |
Georgia, United States |
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Land Between the Lakes Biosphere Reserve |
V |
166264 |
Kentucky, Tennessee, United States |
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Little River National Wildlife Refuge |
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Oklahoma, United States |
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Oak Ridge National Environmental Research Park |
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20001 |
Tennessee, United States |
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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge |
IV |
38256 |
Florida, United States |
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South Atlantic Coastal Plain Biosphere Reserve |
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20317 |
South Carolina, United States |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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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 |
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
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