The blunt-headed salamander (''Ambystoma amblycephalum'') is a
mole salamander endemic to
Mexico. It is only known from the vicinity of its
type locality
Type locality may refer to:
* Type locality (biology)
* Type locality (geology)
See also
* Local (disambiguation)
* Locality (disambiguation)
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, near
Morelia, in
Michoacán
Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...
state in Southwestern Mexico.
It inhabits a landscape consisting of a mosaic of natural grasslands and pine-oak forests at elevations of about
asl. Breeding takes place in ponds.
It has both
neotenic and terrestrial populations. Neotenic populations are
perennibranchiate Perennibranchiate, in zoology, is the condition of an organism retaining branchae, or gills, through life. This condition is generally said of certain amphibia, such as the mudpuppy. The term is opposed to caducibranchiate. In some cases only a sma ...
and retain their fins. Neotenes are very long with extremely short, blunt heads and round eyes. They have relatively short, thick gills. Their coloring is dark brown-gray
dorsally, with a lighter gray under-
belly. They have small, dark marks on their head and back.
References
Mole salamanders
Endemic amphibians of Mexico
Amphibians described in 1940
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