Blue-spotted Salamander Ambystoma laterale
Photographed on the same day as the one shown previously.
Image: Bev Wigney.
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Spotted Salamander, Ambystoma maculatum.
Photographed when a friend and I were out looking for
herps and spiders in south of Ottawa, Ontario in Sept. 2005.
Image: Bev Wigney.
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tags: amphibians, photography, subway art, AMNH, NYC, NYCLife
Marbled salamander, Ambystoma opacum (left) and
Fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra (right)
as portrayed in tiles on the walls of the NYC uptown subway stop (A-B-C)
at 81st and Central Park West. (ISO, no zoom, no flash).
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I've said it before and I'm sure I'll be saying it again: as a life-long zoology nerd, one of my greatest frustrations has always been the fact that there are so many animals that get mentioned - only ever mentioned - but never elaborated upon. I've always liked Axolotls Ambystoma mexicanum, and…
Where's axolotl?
(Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper/EPA/CORBIS)
Often, biologists talk about model systems: organisms that are particularly useful for research. One such organism is the axotol, Ambystoma mexicanum, a cool, but weird salamander:
Because of their large egg and embryo size, susceptibility…
Hmm... if you crossed that with the yellow-spotted salamander, would you get a green-spotted salamander or yellow-and-blue-spotted? :-)
Way cool.........gotta see me one of these guys out in nature. I am such bad herper though, too busy looking at plants to find/catch salamanders, etc.