A. barbouri/texanum question

I have found myself more interested about various ambystoma species ever since I got Petranka's book, and I noticed that Mike G has quite a few A barbouri posts. Mike, from the post below, did you find those barbouri and texanum from the same location?? That's pretty amazing, since Petranka only recognized 3 or 4 specific zones that are common to both species at the time of his publication. Maybe since that time, more areas have been located - or of course you may have just been lucky? Also, I'm curious to see how you differentiated between the species if indeed they were at the same location.

http://www.caudata.org/forum/cgi-bin/show.cgi?tpc=985&post=19795#POST19795

(By the way, it looks to me that Ohio appears to be the Ambystoma capital, There are probably more species of them there than in any other state)

Thanks for the info.

I think I will do some March herp viewing in Ohio this year. I would really enjoy getting photos of even the species that are considered "common" like texanum and jeffersonianum. I have never seen these except in pictures. I was really surprised to find how much earlier the breeding can take place in Ohio compared to Michigan.

Oh, man, I can't believe it. I was originally planning on driving down this weekend, but then saw that the weather seemed to be unseasonally cold all around, and I noticed that snow storms had been happening (I thought as far south as southern Ohio). So I was going to wait yet another week!
I can't believe I missed it. I am only 4 hours north, and we have been having really cold weather (under 10 degree nights), so I figure we are still a long ways away yet.

Do you really think that there will be no adults left around the breeding spots for tigrinum and jeffersonianum? I figure at least that in the more northern areas of the state it is still going on (although of course the Jeff. sals are absent far north). Like I said, I would be very content with seeing just a few texanum.
I usually see the maculatum breed in Michigan, they seem to be the only ones I really witness the large gatherings for.

I think with this news that I will try to make a one day trip out of it tomorrow, cold or not. I really want a chance at seeing something down there!