The frosted flatwoods salamander is meduim-sized, reaching an adult length of 5 inches (13 centimeters). Body color ranges from silvery gray to black, with the back heavily mottled with a variable gray cross-band pattern.The underside is plain gray with faint creamy blotches. The head is small and equal to the neck in diameter. Flatwoods salamanders are moderately sized salamanders that are generally black to chocolate-black with fine, irregular, light gray lines and specks that form a cross-banded pattern across their backs. Adults are terrestrial and live underground most of the year. They breed in relatively small, isolated ephemeral ponds where the larvae develop until metamorphosis. Post-metamorphic salamanders migrate out of the ponds and into the uplands where they live until they move back to ponds to breed as adults. The frosted flatwoods salamander has a very narrow geographic distribution, occurring only in the southeastern coastal plain of the United States. It inhabits seasonally wet pine flatwoods and pine savannas east of the Apalachicola River in northern Florida, southern South Carolina, and southern Georgia. The flatwoods salamander was listed as Federally Threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in 1999, but populations continue to decline. When the species was separated into two species in 2007, the frosted flatwoods salamander and reticulated flatwoods salamander, the frosted flatwoods salamander maintained Threatened status while the reticulated flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) was soon placed on the Federally Endangered list
B&A. The frosted flatwoods salamander is meduim-sized, reaching an adult length of ? inches (1? centimeters) C. The flatwoods salamander was listed as Federally Threatened by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in ?999 D. The species was separated into two species in ?007 E. The underside ? plain gray with faint creamy blotches F. It inhabits seasonally wet pine flatwoods and pine savannas east of the Apalachicola River in northern ?, southern South Carolina, and southern Georgia
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