Spotted salamander

Spotted salamander
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Ambystomatidae
Genus:	Ambystoma
Species:	A. maculatum
Binomial name
	Ambystoma maculatum; (Shaw, 1802)
	Range of A. maculatum
Synonyms
	Salamandra punctata Lacépède, 1788 ; Salamandra punctata Bonnaterre, 1789 ; Salamandra palustris Bechstein, 1800 ; Lacerta maculata Shaw, 1802 ; Salamandra venenosa Daudin, 1803 ; Lacerta subviolacea Barton, 1804 ; Ambystoma carolinae Gray, 1850 ; Salamandra argus Gray, 185 ; Ambystome argus Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854 ; Salamandra margaritifera Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril, 1854 ;

The spotted salamander or yellow-spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum) is a mole salamander common in eastern United States and Canada. It is the state amphibian of Ohio and South Carolina. The species ranges from Nova Scotia, to Lake Superior, to southern Georgia and Texas. Its embryos have been found to have symbiotic algae living in and around them, the only known example of vertebrate cells hosting an endosymbiont microbe (unless mitochondria are considered).

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