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The Cheat Mountain salamander (Plethodon nettingi) The hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) An adult red-spotted, or eastern, newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) The northern dusky salamander (Desmognathus fuscus) with egg clutch The eastern American toad (Bufo americanus) The spring peeper (Pseudacris crucifer) The gray tree frog (Hyla versicolor) A female American bullfrog (Rana ...
The range of Tylototriton anguliceps. The angular-headed newt can be found inhabiting three different countries: Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. [2] It was initially discovered in Mường Nhé District and Thuận Châu District in Vietnam and Doi Lahnga, a mountain in the Chiang Mai Province in Thailand, in 2015. [3]
Salamandridae is a family of salamanders consisting of true salamanders and newts. Salamandrids are distinguished from other salamanders by the lack of rib or costal grooves along the sides of their bodies and by their rough skin. Their skin is very granular because of the number of poison glands. They also lack nasolabial grooves.
A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae. The terrestrial juvenile phase is called an eft. Unlike other members of the family Salamandridae, newts are semiaquatic, alternating between aquatic and terrestrial habitats. Not all aquatic salamanders are considered newts, however.
Family: Salamandridae (true salamanders and newts) Fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra LC; Penibetic salamander, Salamandra longirostris [2] Corsican fire salamander, Salamandra corsica LC ; Alpine salamander, Salamandra atra LC (France, the Alps, and Balkans) Lanza's alpine salamander, Salamandra lanzai VU
The tadpoles are 2 centimetres (0.8 in) long when they hatch and live on yolk stored in the cells of the digestive tract for a month. [ 41 ] At a temperature of 10 °C (50 °F), the olm's embryonic development (time in the eggs before hatching) is 140 days, but it is somewhat slower in colder water and faster in warmer, being as little as 86 ...
Two-toed amphiumas are the most prominent in the Amphiumidae family and the longest salamander species in the United States, [4] that can grow from 39 to 1,042 g (1.4 to 36.8 oz) in mass and from 34.8 to 116 cm (13.7 to 45.7 in) in length.
Paramesotriton have a dark brown dorsum [2] with a prominent vertebral ridge, often also a pair of lateral ridges. The tail is high and laterally compressed. [4] Skin texture varies from relatively smooth to very rough. [2] Paramesotriton hongkongensis has toxic skin and ova, as has been shown for many other salamanders. [5]