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Endangered Species!
Flattwoods Salamander
(Ambystoma cingulatum)

THE FLATTWOODS
SALAMANDER IS IN DANGER

The flattwoods salamander, which is apart of

the Anamalia Kingdom and the Chordata
division is associated with the mole salamander
family. It has a very narrow geographic
distribution, occurring only in the southeastern
coastal plain of the United States. Flatwoods
salamanders inhabit seasonally in wet pine
flatwoods and pine savannahs from southern
South Carolina, southern Georgia, and
northern Florida, west to southern Alabama.
Salamaders come out when is is damp and wet,
and when their is a cold front approaching.
Salamanders are near to the bottom of the food
The Flattwoods salamander has become the canare of most
chain because of their inability to fight back.
Some interesting information about the wildlife. They are disappearing in unthinkable numbers.
Flattwoods are that they are capable of Those who still remain demonstrate alarming genetic alerts
changing the color of their skin depending on or anomalies and sexual morphing and clearly illustrate for
what the backround is that they are around. The everyone to see. They are disappearing because of our
flatwoods salamander breeds in small,
everyday use of waste disposal and chemicals that we spray.
ephemeral ponds, generally characterized by an
overstory of pond cypress. Females lay eggs in One of the scary facts is that amphibians are not the only
small groups, usually within clumps of moist ones who are being effected, their are many mammals that
vegetation or in the entrances of crayfish are being effected as well.
burrows in the dry pond basin. The eggs hatch
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in the ponds. Sexual maturity is approximately
article0011.shtml <ref>
2 years for males and 3 years for females. <ref> http://www.gator-woman.com/salamanders.html