| Mabee's Salamander | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Division: | Chordata |
| Class: | Lissamphibia |
| Order: | Caudata |
| Family: | Ambystomatidae |
| Genus: | Ambystoma |
| Species: | A. mabeei |
| Binomial name | |
| Ambystoma mabeei (Bishop, 1928) |
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Mabee's Salamander (Ambystoma mabeei) can be found in tupelo and cypress bottoms in pinewoods, open fields, and lowland deciduous forest (Behler and King 1979). Pine savannahs, low wet woods, and swamps (Martof et al. 1980). It usually burrows near breeding ponds. Eggs are attached to submerged plant material or bottom debris of acidic, fishless ponds in or near pine stands (Behler and King 1979). In Virginia, breeds in fish-free vernal pond in a large clear-cut area and in ephemeral sinkhole ponds up to 1.5 m deep, within bottomland hardwood forest mixed with pine (Mitchell 1991). Larvae develop in the ponds. Distances moved into terrestrial habitat unknown but likely greater than 150 meters.
The species is found in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Total adult population size is unknown but likely is at least 10,000.