The Animal Ambystoma cingulatum is known commonly as The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander. It is about 9-13.5cm long. The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander’s typical Coloration background has a brownish black to purple with narrow gray or silver net-like markings. Its color allows it to blend in with its background and escape predators. It has a small head and short legs with a long rounded tail.

 

The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander Feeds manly on small invertebrates such as zooplankton. This animal evades being eaten by blending in with its background. This animal competes for food with the Water Tupelo. There in role in the food web is that they eat zooplankton and are eaten by eagles and some big fish. There natural predators are eagles and whatever else can get there hands on it.

 

The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander is commonly found in Southern parts of Carolina and Georgia, And in the northern parts of Florida. They migrate north from About October to December. Then they head back and stay there most of the year. They are endangered so they are not doing well in their ecosystem. They tend to stay were its wet like near a river or the ocean.

 

The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander is shrinking in its population size. They are as I stated before an endangered species. I think there a just too many predators then they can handle. There can be many reasons why they are endangered. There are still quite a few to many to be counted, so I guess that’s good.

 

What stood out about The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander to me is there color. I like there black and white stripe sort of color. What stood out the most to me is that they are endangered. I learned that there was such an animal called The Frosted Flatwoods Salamander and that most salamanders eat small invertebrates. I also always thought that all salamanders were really big but a lot of them are really small and eat invertebrate and bugs.

 

Author: Joseph S

Date: 02/2010

 

Photo Credit:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frosted_Flatwoods_Salamander

Thanks to John Jenson for taking the picture of the salamander