An interview with Laura Muzinic, MSc, Associate Director of the Ambystoma Genetic Stock Center ... year and sends weekly shipments of embryos, larvae, adults and supplies to researchers and ...

Ambystoma is derived from either the Latin anabystoma ... Adults have protruding eyes and long tails, and their slick bodies are mostly black with brilliant yellow spots and stripes on their back, ...

and it can be difficult to distinguish larvae of small-mouthed salamanders from larvae of other species of Ambystoma. (This profile was created by Dr. Laurie Vitt as part of a partnership between the ...

Like other species of mole salamanders (genus Ambystoma), spotted salamanders spend most of the year underground ... The small eggs (about one-eighth of an inch in diameter) hatch in 30 to 40 days and ...