Dark brown, tan to green. Chin and throat of male bright yellow, female white, small irregular sooty dorsal spots, black on legs, ventral surfaces white to smoky gray. Throughout Indiana DIET Eats aquatic and terrestrial insects and other invertebrates including beetles, flies, butterflies, caterpillars, grasshoppers, spiders, slugs, snails, crayfish, millipedes. Plump body and tail long with high fins, dorsal color yellowish brown to olive dotted with black, bottom ivory to cream. Most tadpoles overwinter the first year and transform the following summer.
Maturity is reached two years later.