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	Mole Salamanders
		The mole salamanders belong to the family Ambystomatidae, and are represented in the New England region by four main species: the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum), the blue-spotted salamander (A.
		Mole salamanders get their name from their subterranean habits (they are commonly found in underground tunnels and burrows produced by small mammals), and their ability to burrow under rocks, logs, moss, and other vegetative debris.
		Spring migrations of mole salamanders are a fascinating and awe-inspiring event, for both children and adults alike.
	www.vernalpool.org /inf_mol.htm (705 words)

	* Mole - (Animals): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mole is the common name for several small burrowing mammals, including the true moles, the golden moles, and the marsupial moles.
		The mole is a burrowing mammal with substantial claws.
		Moles are fossorial, living much of their life underground in burrows, but are occasionally active on surface...
	www.bestknows.com /animals/mole.html (823 words)

	Salamanders of SC and GA
		Salamanders, the tailed amphibians, are among the most abundant vertebrates in many habitats in the Southeast.
		Many salamanders, such as the spotted salamander, exhibit biphasic life cycles (typical of amphibians in general) with metamorphosis separating the larval ("tadpole") and adult stages.
		The greatest concentration of salamanders in the Southeast are found in the Appalachian Mountains which is comsidered a worldwide hotspot of salamander diversity.
	www.uga.edu /srelherp/salamanders (190 words)

	Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Daily e-Calendar
		Mole salamanders breed in vernal pools, depressions that fill up with rainfall and snowmelt in the spring and winter and usually dry up by the end of summer.
		Unlike the other Pennsylvania mole salamanders that breed in the spring, the marbled salamander breeds in the fall, mainly in September and early October.
		Marbled salamanders are found in scattered populations in the southern and eastern portions of the Pennsylvania, seemingly absent from the Allegheny Mountains.
	www.wpconline.org /dailyphotos/wpcdaily-9-29.asp (243 words)

	"The First to Disappear"
		salamanders are mole salamanders that live underground unseen for 11 months of the year, appearing only in early spring to breed in wetlands of various kinds.
		A buffer of that size is large enough to contain the wanderings of 95 percent of the salamanders breeding in the average wetland.
		For example, salamander 309 is overwintered 1,414 feet from the pool where she bred last spring.
	www.sover.net /~mpbodin/salamanders.htm (1686 words)

	Nature Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The tiger salamander belongs to a family known as the mole salamanders, largish species that have a penchant for living underground most of the year, noticeably in the burrows of other animals, including voles and woodchucks.
		The blue-spotted salamander in Montauk doesn't have to contend with the tiger salamander or the marbled salamander, but it does breed in some of the same ponds occupied by the spotted salamander, particularly between Walking Dunes in Hither Hills State Park and Fort Pond.
		The marbled salamander is dark with large silvery spots, the blue-spotted salamander is fl with roundish blue spots, the spotted salamander fl with roundish yellow spots, and the tiger salamander like the spotted, but the spots are irregular and elongate.
	archive.easthamptonstar.com /ehquery/970227/out1.htm (1879 words)

	Salamanders of Tennessee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Spotted salamanders are well known for their mass migrations in the spring as they move from their forest habitat to their breeding ponds.
		Another major problem salamanders face is habitat fragmentation; salamanders are unable to move freely between populations or even reach their breeding ponds because of highways and other construction.
		Mole salamanders are one of the few salamanders in Tennessee that may exist either as terrestrial adults or as aquatic, gilled, breeding larva (neoteny).
	www.state.tn.us /twra/salamanders.htm (2960 words)

	Mesothelioma - Salamander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Salamanders superficially resemble lizards, but are easily distinguished by their lack of scales.
		Species of salamanders are numerous and found in most moist or aqueous habitats in the northern hemisphere.
		Salamanders are generally restricted to the northern hemisphere, with the exception of a few species in the northernmost part of South America.
	mesothelioma.me.uk /Salamander.html (290 words)

	Amphibians of Canada -- Browse Species (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mole salamanders: This is a family of chunky, largely terrestrial salamanders.
		All mole salamanders have more or less prominent vertical costal grooves along the sides corresponding to the number of muscle segments and ribs.
		The prevomerine teeth occur in a transverse row that crosses the palate near the posterior margin of the internal nares.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /reptiles/taxa/Caudata.html (959 words)

	* Salamander - (Animals): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Salamanders have tails and small, weak limbs; superficially they resemble the unrelated lizards (which are reptiles),...
		Like frogs, salamanders are amphibians, which in Latin means "double life." Salamanders are born in water, and in their "second life" live on land...
		Amphibians are cold-blooded (body temperature is not internally regulated and therefore is similar to the external temperature), smooth-skinned vertebrates that characteristically hatch as an aquatic larva with gills...
	www.bestknows.com /animals/salamander.html (845 words)

	Salamanders of New York
		The tiger, spotted, Jefferson's, blue-spotted, and marbled salamanders are the New York representatives of a family known as the mole salamanders, so-called because they spend most of their adult life underground, except for a brief early spring breeding period (marbled salamanders are fall breeders).
		Marbled salamanders are found in the southeastern corner of New York and are recognized by white patches on a fl body.
		Mole salamanders leave their winter retreats in early spring and migrate overland to the ponds of their birth.
	www.esf.edu /pubprog/BROCHURE/salamanders/salamand.htm (1275 words)

	Environmental Services Division
		Mole salamanders have similar body configurations: broad, flat heads; protruding eyes; large mouths, thick bodies; and strong legs with thick blunt toes (four front and five rear).
		Tiger salamanders migrate to breeding ponds as early as mid January or as late as March and early April in New York, depending on winter weather conditions.
		As with most mole salamanders, rain or melting snow stimulates the adults to emerge from underground retreats and migrate to breeding ponds.
	www.bnl.gov /esd/wildlife/Tiger_Salmander.htm (1739 words)

	Vernal Affairs - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Mole salamanders get their common name from their habit of living several feet underground in moist burrows made by shrews and other small mammals.
		Mole salamanders use two strategies to increase the likelihood of their survival: they live a long time and generally breed in the pools where they were born.
		Mole salamanders spend most of their lives in upland forests, anywhere from several hundred yards to half a mile from the pool where they were born.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/ZooGoer/1995/1/vernalaffairs.cfm (2595 words)

	Mole Salamander in Indiana
		The Indiana Department of Natural Resources is considering designating the mole salamander as either a species of special concern or a state endangered species.
		Mole salamanders are common in swamps and wetlands in the southern United States.
		The population of mole salamanders was found in a bald cypress swamp, a unique habitat in the state of Indiana, the researchers said.
	www.agriculture.purdue.edu /fnr/wildlife/molesally.html (864 words)

	ASNH Conservation Fact Sheet: Vernal Pools
		Mole salamanders spend most of their lives in underground rodent burrows and tunnels and crevices under rocks and other debris.
		Female salamanders attach their eggs to branches, logs, and other underwater structures, after which they leave the pools and go back to their underground homes for the rest of the year.
		Mole salamander egg masses look like clear or opaque globs that are made up of many eggs, each with a tiny dark embryo within.
	www.nhaudubon.org /conservation/vernal.htm (1857 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Collectively, salamanders of the family Ambystomatidae are referred to as mole salamanders, but it is Ambystoma talpoideum that is known commonly as the mole salamander.
		Loose, moist soils are most suitable for burrowing and therefore the mole salamander is found primarily in wet bottomland and swamp habitats, flatwoods, and near floodplains and low-lying areas.
		Male salamanders do not have breeding calls like frogs and toads, but they can be distinguished from females because they develop a swelling around the cloaca (the internal chamber at the base of the tail that receives the digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts) during breeding.
	www.inhs.uiuc.edu /inhsreports/winter-02/salamand.html (605 words)

	Epinions.com - Living Along the Appomattox — Salamanders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Said critter is a mole salamander, alas one of the less gaily colored of the salamander tribe, but interesting nonetheless.
		Mole salamanders are not particularly common in Virginia and can only be found in a few locations around the state.
		Mole was caught in a minnow trap baited with a green glo-stick by a small group of herp-lovers under the supervision of Mike Hayslett of the Holiday Lake 4H Educational Center.
	www.epinions.com /content_3298467972 (674 words)

	CNAH LINKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mole Salamanders belong to the family Ambystomatidae, and are represented in the Connecticut River Valley region by four species.
		Salamanders are distinguished from other amphibians (frogs and caecilians) most obviously by the presence of a tail in all larvae, juveniles and adults, and by having limbs set at right angles to the body with forelimbs and hindlimbs of approximately equal size (except in the family Sirenidae, which lacks hindlimbs).
		Salamanders occur mainly in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.
	www.naherpetology.org /links.asp?id=5 (2477 words)

	Georgia Wildlife Web Site; amphibians: Caudata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Salamanders are found in a variety of habitats, including streams, swamps, marshes, forests, caves, and rock ledges.
		Salamanders breathe using lungs or gills, although in some instances (the Lungless Salamanders) they may absorb oxygen through the skin.
		The family is composed of medium-sized, stocky salamanders which range in size from 76 - 203 mm (3 - 8 in) in total length.
	museum.nhm.uga.edu /gawildlife/amphibians/caudata/caudata.html (661 words)

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		The mole salamanders (Ambystomids) are a secretive group of organisms that are primarily active at night, rarely seen except in migration during their brief breeding season, and are adapted to cool, moist conditions.
		Spotted salamanders are found throughout eastern North America, ranging as far north as southern Quebec and the Canadian maritime provinces, as far south as northern Florida (with scattered area where they absent [e.g., parts of Virginia and New Jersey]), and as far west as northeastern Wisconsin, and eastern Texas (Klemens 1993; Petranka 1998a).
		Spotted salamanders are generalized carnivores that forage in rotting logs and debris for a variety of invertebrates (Ptingsten and Downs 1989) including earthworms, snails, slugs, insects and larvae, spiders, and beetles (Degraaf and Yamasaki 2001).
	www.uri.edu /cels/nrs/paton/LH_spotted_sal.html (3026 words)

	Ambystoma macrodactylum
		This is a medium-sized dark gray or fl salamander with an irregular yellow, olive or green dorsal stripe, distinct costal grooves, a broad head and rounded snout.
		Washington Woodland Salamanders (Plethodontids) differ in having a uniformly narrow body shape, a more pointed snout that narrows in front of the eyes, nasolabial grooves, a fourth hind toe similar in length to the other toes, and a tail that is round in cross section not laterally compressed.
		However, as Long-toed Salamanders seem to have a relatively low tolerance for co-occurrence with predatory fishes, especially exotic species, a better understanding of this phenomenon in context of their current distribution is needed.
	www.dnr.wa.gov /nhp/refdesk/herp/html/4amma.html (1292 words)

	Mole Salamander
		Although the mole salamander, Ambystoma talpoideum, is fairly common in the Coastal Plain of South Carolina and Georgia.
		The mole salamander breeds in nearly every type of aquatic habitat on the SRS, as long as fish are not present, and most individuals are known to return to the very same pond, bay, or slough in which they hatched.
		Range of the Mole Salamander in the eastern U.S.A. Salamanders of SC and GA
	www.uga.edu /~srelherp/salamanders/ambtal.htm (251 words)

	Overview: the Mole Salamanders
		Both salamanders listed as indicator species are known as mole salamanders.
		Adult salamanders emerge from their subterranean haunts on the first relatively warm rainy nights of early spring.
		Male salamanders migrate to the breeding pool first and wait for the females to arrive.
	www.umaine.edu /wetlands/VPspottedsal.htm (315 words)

	Diggings
		The Columbia long-toed salamander we were looking at belongs to a group known as mole salamanders.
		Mole salamanders occur only in the New World, and their earliest known fossils date back to 50 million years before the present.These ancient bones exactly match those of the modern tiger salamander, a stocky creature with a wide head and splotchy pattern.
		Tigers are the largest and most widely distributed mole salamander, growing to a foot or more in length and ranging from the great valley of central Mexico to the Canadian Rockies.
	www.diggings.org /salamanders.html (820 words)

	Mole Salamanders and Vernal Pools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The red backed salamander is extremely common in Massachusetts and often comes to mind when one discusses salamanders with the public.
		Though the salamander prefers moist environments, the young hatch directly from eggs laid on land and the red-backed salamander does not utilize vernal pools (or any other wetland) at any point of its life cycle.
		The red-back salamander is smaller and more slender than the large, heavy-bodied, wide-headed mole salamander.
	www.vernalpool.org /ss2-12.htm (114 words)

	WOW Amphibs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) belongs to the group of salamanders called mole salamanders.
		Missouri's tiger salamander is the Eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum tigrinum).
		The salamander's coloration is dark brown or fl background color with yellow spots or blotches occurring across its back.
	www.wondersofwildlife.org /animals/amphibians.shtml (150 words)

	Eastern Tiger Salamander Fact Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The tiger salamander is one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States.
		The tiger salamander spends most of its life underground, as do other members of the group referred to as "mole salamanders." On Long Island, it emerges from its burrow in February or March to migrate at night, usually during rain, to the breeding ponds.
		The eastern tiger salamander ranges along the east coast from southern New York to northern Florida, west from Ohio to Minnesota and southward through eastern Texas to the Gulf.
	www.dec.state.ny.us /website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/tisafs.html (674 words)

	Ambystomatidae (Mole Salamanders)
		The mole salamanders (Family Ambystomatidae) are found only in North America.
		Adult mole salamanders have stocky bodies and limbs, short broad heads and small eyes.
		Mole salamander larvae also have wide heads and large tailfins.
	www.fs.fed.us /r4/amphibians/family_ambystomatidae.htm (138 words)

	Salamanders
		The spotted salamander, the blue-spotted salamander, and the tiger salamander live in Lake County wetlands.
		Salamanders like vernal ponds, which are made by melted snow and spring rain.
		This is beneficial to salamanders, because fish, which eat salamander eggs and larvae, can't live in these ponds.
	www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us /Wetlands/Salamander/Salamander.html (245 words)

	CNAH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The breeding colony of 23 Mole Salamanders (Ambystoma talpoideum), brownish-fl amphibians that grow to about 4 inches in length, were found last week in Posey County.
		Mole salamanders are common in swamps and wetlands in the southern United States, but also live in extreme southern Illinois, western Kentucky and Missouri.
		MacGowan said it's unknown if the Mole Salamanders have existed all along in Posey County or if they were recently transported there from Illinois or Kentucky by a flood or some other way.
	www.naherpetology.org /news.asp?id=86 (314 words)

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