Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Tylototriton shanjing, the emperor newt, Mandarin newt or Mandarin salamander, is a highly toxic newt native to Yunnan and parts of South China. It is sometimes seen in private collections, and is sometimes available for sale at certain reptile and amphibian-specializing pet stores and occasionally through captive breeders .
Neurergus kaiseri, the Luristan newt, Kaiser's mountain newt, Kaiser's spotted newt or emperor spotted newt (not to be confused with Tylototriton shanjing), is a species of very colourful salamander in the family Salamandridae. It is endemic to the southern Zagros Mountains in Iran where it is known from just four streams.
A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae. ... Japanese fire belly newts, Chuxiong fire-bellied newts, Triturus species, emperor newts, ...
The red-tailed knobby newt or Kweichow (crocodile) newt (Tylototriton kweichowensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae. It is found in western Guizhou ("Kweichow" being an old spelling of Guizhou) and north-eastern Yunnan, China. [1] It is most closely related to emperor newt (Tylototriton shanjing) and Himalayan newt (T ...
This newt can reach a length of 20 cm (7.9 in). The tongue is small and is free on the sides and only slightly towards its base. The teeth on the palate are in two oblique rows that meet at the front of the mouth. The skull has a thick, bony fronto-squamosal arch, a feature of all salamanders. [2]
There are 62 salamander species assessed as near threatened. Lungless salamanders. Green salamander (Aneides aeneus) ... Emperor newt (Tylototriton shanjing)
Aristotle, Pliny, Nicander, Aelian. The standard lore of the salamander as a creature enduring fire and extinguishing it was known by the Ancient Greeks, as far back as the 4th century BCE, by Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and his successor Theophrastus (c. 371–c. 287 BCE) [3] who gave such description of the σαλαμάνδρα (salamandra).
Neurergus derjugini, the Kurdistan newt, [3] Kordestan newt, Derjugin's (Kordestan) mountain newt, or yellow-spotted mountain newt, is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is found in Kurdistan in western Iran [ 3 ] [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and in northeastern Iraq .