spotted salamanders
Mole salamander species
Spotted salamanders are large, stocky amphibians native to eastern North America, black or dark blue with two rows of yellow or orange spots along the back.
They spend most of their lives underground, emerging on rainy spring nights to breed in temporary woodland pools.
Adults can live over twenty years.
- amphibianDual-habitat cold-blooded vertebrate
- hatchingEmergence from an egg
- larvaeImmature metamorphosing creatures
- metamorphosisProfound biological restructuring
- vertebrateSpinal column animal
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