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Ambystoma maculatum (Stanton 4)🦎

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SpeciesCaudataAmbystomatidae
Amphibians

🦎Spotted salamander

Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw, 1802)

The spotted salamander, also known commonly as the yellow-spotted salamander, is a species of mole salamander in the family Ambystomatidae. The species is native to the eastern United States and Canada. It is the state amphibian of Ohio and South Carolina. The species ranges from Nova Scotia, to Lake Superior, to southern Georgia and Texas. Its embryos have been found to have symbiotic algae, Chlorococcum amblystomatis, living in and around them, the only known example of vertebrate cells hosting an endosymbiont microbe.

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Also called
Ambystoma maculatum
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
0.25 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
32 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Spotted salamander

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.01 kg
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Figures vary

  • 0.02 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.25 m
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
32 yearsrecord 32 years · AmphiBIO
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 125
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Spotted salamander yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familyAmbystomatidae
  6. ›genusAmbystoma
  7. ›speciesAmbystoma maculatum
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. familyAmbystomatidae
  4. genusAmbystoma
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  11. superfamilySalamandroidea
  12. familyAmbystomatidae
  13. genusAmbystoma
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In other languages
Gevlekte molsalamander (nl), Ambystoma maculatum (es), Salamandre maculée (fr), Ambystoma plamista (pl), Ambystoma maculatum (pt), Gulfläckig mullvadssalamander (sv) … and 12 more languages
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Ambystoma maculatum (Stanton 4)Ambystoma maculatum 339964801 (cropped)
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