Animals / Amphibian

Spotted salamander

Ambystoma maculatum · Ambystomatidae

The spotted salamander, also known commonly as the yellow-spotted salamander, is a species of mole salamander in the family Ambystomatidae. The species is native to the eastern United States and Canada. It is the state amphibian of Ohio and South Carolina.

Where the Spotted salamander lives

Recorded in United States of America and Canada (North America).

Most records fall in Maine, Ontario, New York, Nova Scotia, Alabama and Massachusetts.

See the Spotted salamander’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 41,415 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.