Ambystoma macrodactylum

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Habitat

Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 1,388 meters (4,555 feet).[1]

Ecology: It is found in a wide variety of habitats , from semiarid sagebrush deserts to sub alpine meadows, including dry woodlands, humid forests , and rocky shores of mountain lakes . Adults are subterranean except during the breeding season . It breeds in temporary or permanent ponds or in quiet water at the edge of lakes and streams . During the breeding season adults may be found under logs , rocks, and other debris near water. Eggs are attached to vegetation or loose on bottom . (Ref. 253232).

List of Habitats:

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.1     Forest - Boreal   
  
•     1.4     Forest - Temperate   
  
•     3     Shrubland   
  
•     3.4     Shrubland - Temperate   
  
•     4     Grassland   
  
•     4.4     Grassland - Temperate   
  
•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.2     Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent/Irregular Rivers/Streams/Creeks   
  
•     5.4     Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands   
  
•     5.5     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)   
  
•     5.7     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)   
  
•     5.8     Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)   
  
•     8     Desert   
  
•     8.2     Desert - Temperate   
  
•     15     Artificial/Aquatic & Marine   
  
•     15.2     Artificial/Aquatic - Ponds (below 8ha)   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Amblystoma krausei Peters • Ambystoma macrodactyla • Ambystoma macrodactylum Baird, 1850 • Ambystoma macrodactylum columbianum • Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum • Ambystoma macrodactylum krausei • Ambystoma macrodactylum columbianum Ferguson, 1961 • Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum Russell and Anderson, 1956 • Ambystoma macrodactylum krausei Peters, 1882

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 01-Sep-2009

Similar Species

Members of the genus Ambystoma

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 45 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. andersoni (Anderson's Salamander) · A. annulatum (Ringed Salamander) · A. barbouri (Streamside Salamander) · A. bishopi (Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander) · A. bombypellum (Axolotl) · A. californiense (California Tiger Salamander) · A. cingulatum (Frosted Flatwoods Salamander) · A. dumerilii (Lake Patzcuaro Salamander) · A. flavipiperatum (Yellow-Peppered Salamander) · A. gracile (Northwestern Salamander) · A. granulosum (Granular Salamander) · A. jeffersonianum (Jefferson's Salamander) · A. laterale (Kelley's Island Salamander) · A. leorae (Leora's Stream Salamander) · A. lermaense (Lake Lerma Salamander) · A. mabeei (Mabee's Salamander) · A. macrodactylum (Central Long-Toed Salamander) · A. macrodactylum columbianum (Eastern Long-Toed Salamander) · A. macrodactylum croceum (Santa Cruz Long-Toed Salamander) · A. macrodactylum krausei (Northern Long-Toed Salamander) · A. macrodactylum macrodactylum (Long-Toed Salamander) · A. macrodactylum sigillatum (Long-Toed Salamander) · A. maculatum (Spotted Salamander) · A. mavortium (Blotched Tiger Salamander) · A. mavortium diaboli (Gray Tiger Salamander) · A. mavortium mavortium (Barred Tiger Salamander) · A. mavortium melanostictum (Blotched Tiger Salamander) · A. mavortium nebulosum (Sonoran Tiger Salamander) · A. mavortium stebbinsi (Sonoran Tiger Salamander) · A. mexicanum (Mexican Axolotl) · A. opacum (Marbled Salamander) · A. ordinarium (Puerto Hondo Stream Salamander) · A. rivulare (Michoacan Stream Salamander) · A. rosaceum (Tarahumara Salamander) · A. talpoideum (Mole Salamander) · A. taylori (Taylor's Salamander) · A. texanum (Kelley's Island Salamander) · A. tigrinum (Eastern Tiger Salamander) · A. tigrinum diaboli (Gray Tiger Salamander) · A. tigrinum mavortium (Barred Tiger Salamander) · A. tigrinum melanostictum (Blotched Tiger Salamander) · A. tigrinum nebulosum (Arizona Tiger Salamander) · A. tigrinum stebbinsi (Sonoran Tiger Salamander) · A. tigrinum tigrinum (Eastern Tiger Salamander) · A. velasci (Mexican Tiger Salamander)

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Further Reading

• A check list of North American amphibians and reptiles / by Leonhard Stejneger and Thomas Barbour. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1933. url p. 6.
• A manual of land and fresh water vertebrate animals of the United States (exclusive of birds) by Henry Sherring Pratt. .. with 184 illustrations. Philadelphia, Blakiston's[c1923] url p. 149.
• Amphibian and reptile inventory on the Headwaters and Dillon Resources Areas in conjunction with Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program; c1998. url , , , , , , , , , , , .
• Amphibian and reptile survey of the Thompson Chain of Lakes / submitted by Paul Hendricks; a report to Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program; c2000. url , p. 2.
• Amphibian and reptile survey on the Bureau of Land Management Lewistown District: 1995-1998 / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program; c1998. url , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
• Amphibian, reptile and northern bog lemming survey on the Rocky Mountain Front: 1996 / submitted by James D. Reichel; a report to Lewis and Clark National Forest, Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Region 4, [and] BLM-Great Falls Resource Area. Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c1997. url , p. 16, p. 17, p. 51, p. 54.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 69 1929 Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, 1863- url p. 210, p. 458, p. 458.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 114, p. 154, p. 184, p. 186.
• Check-list of the amphibians and reptiles of Canada and Alaska / Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1955. url , p. 11, p. 12.
• Ecological inventory of wetland sites in the Thompson-Fisher conservation easement / Helena, MT: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c2002. url .
• Effects of highways on wildlife and fish with special reference to Montana a ProCite literature collection / Bozeman, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Management Program, Montana State University, 2001 url .
• Inventory of plants, plant communities and herpetofauna of concern in the vicinity of the Snow-Talon burn, Helena National Forest / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program, c2005. url , .
• Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge bullfrog and painted turtle investigations: 1997 / Helena, Mont.: Montana Natural Heritage Program; c1998. url .
• Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History. 4 1970 San Diego, Calif.: The Society, 1931-1989. url p. 64.
• Name that animal; a guide to the identification of the common land and fresh-water animals of the United States, with special reference to the area east of the Rockies. With drawings by Olive Driver. Northampton? Mass., 1950 url p. 327.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 249.
• Notes on growth and reproduction of the slimy salamander Plethodon glutinosus [by] Clifford H. Pope and Sarah H. Pope. 31 1949 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1949. url p. 254.
• Occasional papers of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, url , p. 12, p. 13, p. 29, p. 68.
• Preliminary amphibian and reptile survey of the Ashland District, Custer National Forest: 1995: a report / Helena: Montana Natural Heritage Program, [1996] url .
• Proceedings - California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url , p. 215, p. 40, p. 701.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 10.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 56.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url , p. 40, p. 455, p. 622, p. 701.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 326, p. 558, p. 707.
• Productive farming; or, A familiar digest of the recent discoveries of Liebig, Johnston, Davy, and other celebrated writers on vegetable chemistry; showing how the results of tillage might be greatly augmented. By Joseph A. Smith. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1843. url p. 354.
• Selected vertebrate endangered species of the seacoast of the United States / prepared by National Fish and Wildlife Laboratory, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [Washington]: The Service: [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1980. url p. 6.
• Some account of the amphibians and reptiles of British Columbia / [Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum of Zoology], 1932. url p. 317.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url , p. 138, p. 151, p. 331, p. 332, p. 333, p. 579, p. 581, p. 584, p. 585, p. 624, p. 634, p. 636, p. 655, p. 683, p. 731, p. 758, p. 759, p. 770, p. 784, p. 790, p. 82.
• The Great Basin naturalist. 2 1941 Provo, Utah: M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, 1939-1999. url p. 139, p. 301, p. 430, black & storm, page 9.
• University of California publications in zoology. Berkeley: University Press, 1906- url p. 138.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
• Geoffrey Hammerson 2004. Ambystoma macrodactylum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 30January2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 5 providers.
• Hammerson, G. 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• California Academy of Sciences: CAS Herpetology Collection Catalog
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History: Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• University of Alberta: University of Alberta Herpetology Collection
• University of Colorado Museum: Zoological specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 25749
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-195693
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 173601
• IUCN ID: 190431
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: AAAAA01080
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 177564

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 615.410 based on 29 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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