{"id":14851,"date":"2014-05-05T21:54:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T02:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14851"},"modified":"2014-05-05T21:54:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T02:54:03","slug":"yellow-spotted-salamander-larvae-developing-on-southcoast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14851","title":{"rendered":"Yellow Spotted Salamander Larvae Developing on SouthCoast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-ss-frontal-001-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14864\" title=\"post-ss-frontal-001-480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-ss-frontal-001-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-ss-frontal-001-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-ss-frontal-001-480-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Yellow Spotted Salamander\u00c2\u00a0(Ambystoma maculatum)<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000; text-align: justify;\">The SouthCoast endured torrential rains on the evening of March 27th with temperatures in the 50s. \u00c2\u00a0While the flooding may have been inconvenient for humans, yellow spotted salamanders (<em>Ambystoma maculatum<\/em>) saw this moment as a golden opportunity to venture from winter woodlands to swampy wetlands for their annual mating aggregation, known as a congress. \u00c2\u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=14023\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Yellow Spotted Salamander<\/strong><\/a> for the full story.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-003-890.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14856\" title=\"post yss 003 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-003-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-003-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-003-480-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Spotted Salamander Larva Develops Gills and Stabilizers<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Five and a half weeks later, the Turtle Journal team visited these SouthCoast congress locations to assess the development of spotted salamander larvae. \u00c2\u00a0They have reached the stage of gill and stabilizer development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-002-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14854\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-002-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-002-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-002-480-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-006-960.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14862\" title=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-006-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-006-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-006-480-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Individual Sac Holds Each Developing Spotted Salamander<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As we have documented in previous articles on spotted salamander eggs, each larva is held in an individual sac. \u00c2\u00a0See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=5996\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Spotted Salamanders: From Eggs to Larvae<\/strong><\/a>, April 22nd, 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X_lM7i2TTPs?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/X_lM7i2TTPs?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/X_lM7i2TTPs\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">IF YOU HAVE AN iPAD &amp; CAN&#8217;T SEE VIDEO, CLICK HERE.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Development of Spotted Salamander Eggs and Larvae<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Combining original Turtle Journal footage (in color) with (black and white) material from Yale University in 1920, we document the development phases of spotted salamander eggs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-004-480.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14858\" title=\"post yss 004 480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-004-480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-004-480.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/post-yss-004-480-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><strong>Spotted Salamander Larva Develops Gills and Stabilizers<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the last 5 1\/2 weeks larvae seem to have progressed to nearly release state within their individual protective sacs. \u00c2\u00a0At approximately this stage of development in 2010, we began to observe a few larvae free swimming in vernal pools adjacent to an abandoned cranberry bog in Marion, MA on the SouthCoast.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yellow Spotted Salamander\u00c2\u00a0(Ambystoma maculatum) The SouthCoast endured torrential rains on the evening of March 27th with temperatures in the 50s. \u00c2\u00a0While the flooding may have been inconvenient for humans, yellow spotted salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum) saw this moment as a golden opportunity to venture from winter woodlands to swampy wetlands for their annual mating aggregation, known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[402,826],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14851"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14879,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14851\/revisions\/14879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}