Are Marbled Salamanders Poisonous. The marbled salamander is a stocky boldly banded salamander. Marbled salamanders grow to about 3 5 4 25 in 9 10 7 cm in size and are stout bodied and chubby in appearance. However salamanders are not venomous and the most common species kept as pets are unlikely to bite nor are able to kill you.
Equally salmonella is a potential risk. Adults can grow to about 11 cm 4 in small compared to other members of its genus.
They use their tails to warn off predators excreting poison from their tails which causing some serious irritation when touched.
Marbled salamanders are very defensive about their territory. The male marbled salamanders have white bands and the female s bands are more silver grey. Background marbled salamanders are distributed across the eastern us from new hampshire to northern florida and west to lake michigan in the north and texas in the south 1 the species generally inhabits deciduous forest and prairie and is absent from much of the appalachian mountains 1 2 in massachusetts it is present at relatively low abundances partially due to being at the extreme. Marbled salamander fire salamander slimy.
