Black And White Marbled Salamander

They are gray to black in color with silvery white cross bands on males and grayish cross bands on females.

Black and white marbled salamander.

The marbled salamander is a stocky medium sized salamander marbled salamanders reach an adult size of 3 5 to 5 inches in length. Sporting white or gray bands across its body this secretive species is known to hide out beneath leaves and logs. The bands of females tend to be gray while those of males are more white. The body is black with light bands of varying widths running across the back.

The marbled salamander has a black body with white or grey band markings on its sides back and tail. The marbled salamander is one of many amphibians found in the bottomland hardwood forests of mississippi. The marbled salamander has a large tail that is about 40 percent of their whole body. Photo by kevin stohlgren.

A small stout bodied salamander this species is easily identified by its distinct black and white patterning across its entire body. They can be identified by their black dark brown body including its venter with light white silvery crossbands on the dorsum. The marbled salamander is a relatively common resident throughout north carolina. Their bellies are black.

It has short limbs with four toes a broad snout and black eyes. This species is sexually dimorphic males tend to have white crossbands and females tend to have gray silvery crossbands. Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance. Like most of the mole salamanders it is secretive spending most of its life under logs or in burrows.

Because of their markings they have the word marbled in their name.