[NatureNS] Blue spotted Salamander

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:53:50 -0400
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and fertilized.&l
Can someone please explain how female only species reproduce or point to
an explanation? In language a 14 year old can understand. Thanks

c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca wrote:
. . . .
> 
> The Jefferson's Salamander complex (to which the Blue-spotted
> Salamander  belongs) is actually a complicated group of diplod and
> triploid species. The Jefferson's Salamander (/Ambystoma
> jeffersonianum/), which is a diploid species with both males and
> females, has associated with it a triploid female-only species called
> the Silvery Salamander (/Ambystoma plantinium/). Neither of these
> species occurs in the Maritimes.
. . . .

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