DFW HERPS |
Ambystoma tigrinum |
Eastern Tiger Salamander |
EASTERN TIGER SALAMANDER Ambystoma tigrinum (Green, 1825) STATUS: Rare DOCUMENTED COUNTIES: Dallas, Kaufman HABITAT: Post Oak Belt COMMENTS: The tiger salamander turns up in unlikely places occasionally such as roadside ditches, stock tanks, and temporary pools of water. It is used as bait in the larval form with the unused individuals often being released in the first available water. There are no recent records for this species. |