BARRED TIGER SALAMANDER Ambystoma mavortium Baird, 1850

STATUS:  Rare

DOCUMENTED COUNTIES:  Tarrant, and Wise

HABITAT:  Western Cross Timbers

SUBSPECIES:  Barred Tiger Salamander (A.m. mavortium Baird, 1850)

COMMENTS:  The tiger salamander turns up in unlikely places occasionally such as roadside ditches, stock tanks, and temporary pools of water.  It is used as bait in the larval form with the unused individuals often being released in the first available water. There are no recent records for this species