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Ambystoma marvolum/tigrinum?
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auntiejude
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Where did you get them from, do you know anything about their history? It's not always possible to tell just from their patterns as there are often variations within a species according to exact location of origin.
My first impression of your pic says A. mavortium. Not sure which subspecies though.
If you Google images of Ambystoma you should come up with loads of pics of different patterns and subspecies.
My first impression of your pic says A. mavortium. Not sure which subspecies though.
If you Google images of Ambystoma you should come up with loads of pics of different patterns and subspecies.
Sith the turtle
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To me, it looks like tigrinium, as this subspecies has the barring, but smaller and generally more, while barreds have bigger bars, which kind of makes them more "Noticeable"
Neotenic_Jaymes
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I'd lean towards Ambystoma tigrinum. The pattern is more spotted and the snout seems to be slightly hooked downward. Do you have more pictures? It's got to be from an eastern or northern species.
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Hi guys, cheers for the help! I dont really know anything about their history other than they were wild caught... I have a few more pictures of them, if you need any particular photos of them to tell then ill try and take some later 
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Neotenic_Jaymes
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You can't go wrong with saying its a (Ambystoma tigrinum) at the point.
thanks. Looking at photos of tigrinum it does look the most like them. The fact that their markings are quite small threw me off
Sith the turtle
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That's what I was saying, Tigrinum tends to have small less noticeable markings, while Mavitorium tends to have bigger, brighter and generally more noticeable
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Sorry reading that back ive realised how badly ive phrased it, i was saying that from the pictures ive seen (i was comparing within tigrinum) theres a very large variation in patterns so i was finding it tricky matching patterns from the photos.
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AmbystoMan
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A.tigrinum for me too,
beautiful specimens ! ^^
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beautiful specimens ! ^^
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