BARRED TIGER SALAMANDER
Ambystoma tigrinum – Green 1825
Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium – Baird 1850
IDENTIFICATION:
DISTRIBUTION:
In Mexico, this subspecies’ range is poorly known and it may be more widespread than currently recognized. Currently it is known to occur in the State of Chihuahua, near the United States border. Introduced populations in southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico will expand and reach adjacent Sonora and Chihuahua if they haven’t done so already.
HABITAT:
In Mexico this salamander inhabits desert and desert-grassland environments. It reproduces in stock ponds, marshy areas and road culverts.
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TAXONOMY:
This species is closely related to Ambystoma velasci, and is found within several-hundred miles of the nearest populations of that species.
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PERSONAL NOTES:
I have seen this species many times, but never in Mexico. Most A. t. mavorium I have seen were either on roads during rainy nights or larvae that I seined from stock ponds in the central plains.
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