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Spotted Salamander

Ambystoma maculata

Description:

Over 100 spotted salamanders had migrated to two pools to breed. Many individuals had strange spotting (fused spots- up to three), one as seen above only had one spot, and another lacked spots altogether. Spermatophores and a few egg masses could be seen.

Habitat:

Vernal pools in a conservation area.

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2 Comments

keithp2012
keithp2012 11 years ago

That is amazing one is almost spotless

Beautiful capture LeslieBrinkman,congrats, thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :-)
I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-)
You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users.
There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings.
Attention when join local missions http://www.projectnoah.org/missions they have a range that is in the mission map,see first that before join.you only can submit spotting in a mission if the photos where taken inside the mission range.
Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)

LeslieBrinkman
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LeslieBrinkman

Rogersville, Missouri, USA

Spotted on Feb 7, 2013
Submitted on Feb 19, 2013

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