Flatwoods salamander

The Flatwoods salamander is classified as Vulnerable (VU), considered to be facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

The flatwoods salamander is dark gray to black, with grayish or silvery lines or flecks that form a reticulate or frosted pattern on the back. More

The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma cingulatum) is a small (9-13.5 cm total length), elongate species of mole salamander. It has a small, indistinct head, short legs, and a long, rounded tail. More

The flatwoods salamander used to crawl over 100 million acres of longleaf pine habitat in the Southeastern United States. Now there is less than 3 million acres of habitat left - most of it in 11 wetland-rich Florida counties. More

The Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) is a species of mole salamander that is native to a small portion of the southeastern coastal plain in the western panhandle of Florida and extreme southwestern Georgia. More

The flatwoods salamander is meduim-sized, reaching an adult length of 5 inches (13 centimeters). Body color ranges from silvery gray to black, with the back heavily mottled with a variable gray cross-band pattern.The underside is palin gray with faint cramy blotches. More

Flatwoods salamanders are moderately-sized salamanders that are generally black to chocolate-black with fine, irregular, light gray lines and specks that form a cross-banded pattern across their backs. Adults are terrestrial and live underground most of the year. More

flatwoods salamander, and the listing procedures that it has followed to date. And second, the hearing will provide the public with the opportunity to make its comments to the Fish and Wildlife Service concerning this proposed listing. More

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flatwoods salamander habitat maintenance when activities mimic natural conditions in pine flatwoods. Fire is an essential tool in maintaining flatwoods salamander habitat, particularlry fire in the lightning or growing season when salamanders are not breeding or dispersing. More

The flatwoods salamander was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1999. Recent studies split the flatwoods salamander into two species - the frosted flatwoods salamander and the reticulated flatwoods salamander. More

Flatwoods salamanders may no longer occur at many historical locations. The last observation of flatwoods salamanders in Alabama was 1981 (Jones et al., 1982). Palis (1997b) was unable to confirm the continued existence of flatwoods salamanders at/near 2/3 of historical breeding sites sampled in Florida. More

Flatwoods Salamanders living in parts of north Florida and South Georgia have been moved from threatened to endangered status.Email Address: news@wctv. More

Habits and Habitat: The Flatwoods Salamander is strict in its habitat requirements, living in longleaf pine flatwoods with scattered ponds, which it uses as breeding sites. Although all mole salamanders are fossorial and secretive, this species may be the most difficult to locate. More

Images Flatwoods salamander on sand ARKive is working with IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature, to source images of the world's threatened amphibian species. More

The frosted flatwoods salamander will retain threatened status. Approximately 4,453 acres across portions of the states of Florida and Georgia are designated as critical habitat for the reticulated salamander. More

The flatwoods salamander is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN and as Endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. It is extirpated from Alabama, and its remaining stronghold is in Florida. SIGNIFICANCE TO HUMANS None known. More

Endangered Status for Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander; Designation of Critical Habitat for Frosted Flatwoods Salamander and Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander = Summary: ↑ We, the U.S. More

habitat for the flatwoods salamander by arriving at a "not prudent" filing. "We felt like there was little benefit in designating critical habitat," she said. More

The reticulated flatwoods salamander is endangered because of its small population sizes, loss of natural habitat to development and its limited ability to repopulate its historic habitat. Scientists say most of the salamander's populations in the U.S. More

Order : Caudata
Family : Ambystomatidae
Genus : Ambystoma
Species : cingulatum
Authority : Cope, 1867 [1868]