Mabee's salamander

The Mabee's salamander is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

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. More

Mabee's Salamanders breed in semi-perminant wetlands from the late fall to early spring . Eggs are laid singly or in small groups on leaves or aquatic vegetation. Metamorphosis occurs in late spring when the then larvae are 5 - 6 cm long. More

Range of the Mabee's Salamander in our region Range of the Mabee's Salamander in the eastern U.S.A. More

Mabee's salamander (Ambystoma mabeei) Potential Distribution Map * Resource Identifier: http://gapmap.nbii.gov/generatemap. More

Mabee's salamander has 13 costal grooves and a relatively smaller head. Adults migrate to water to breed in late fall or early winter and then return to land the following spring. The breeding period is early December to mid-February. More

distribution of Mabee's salamanders (Ambystoma mabeei) is unknown. More

* Mabee's SalamanderMabee's SalamanderMabee's Salamander can be found in tupelo and cypress bottoms in pinewoods, open fields, and lowland deciduous forest . Pine savannahs, low wet woods, and swamps . More

Ambystoma mabeei (Bishop, 1928) Mabee's Salamander | more about this species A. mabeei. Adult from Scotland Co., North Carolina. Photo More