Using and Constructing a Classification Key.
Field studies of breeding Spotted Salamanders Ambystoma maculatum in Eastern Missouri. Contributions in Biology and Geology, 67: 1. The Vernal Pool Association, 2004.Disclaimer: ITIS taxonomy is based on the latest scientific consensus available, and is provided as a general reference source for interested parties. However, it is not a legal authority for statutory or regulatory purposes. While every effort has been made to provide.Ambystoma maculatum ranges from southeastern Canada, south to Georgia and Alabama, and west to east Texas. The species primarily inhabits mature deciduous forests with vernal pools for breeding sites, in addition to coniferous, mixed coniferous, and bottomland forests and adjoining floodplains.
Ambystoma maculatum. A family of mostly large robust salamanders (up to 340 mm in Ambystoma tigrinum), Mole salamanders are widely distributed in North America, from southern Canada south to Mexico City. These species occur in a variety of habitat, requiring aquatic habitat for their larval stage.A dichotomous classification key presents the user with two opposite statements about some trait of an organism. By choosing the statement that best describes the unknown organism, the user is led to further pairs of statements.
Ambystomatidae is a family of salamanders belonging to the order Caudata in the class Amphibia. It contains two genera, Ambystoma, the mole salamanders, and Dicamptodon, the Pacific giant salamanders. Taxonomy ( edit ).
