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SpeciesCaudataSalamandridae
Amphibians

🦎Alpine newt

Ichthyosaura alpestris (Laurenti, 1768)

Čolek horský (Ichthyosaura alpestris) je středně velký ocasatý obojživelník. Podobně jako u jiných čolků je poměrně velký vzhledový rozdíl mezi vodní (období rozmnožování) a suchozemskou formou. U čolka horského je popsáno mnoho poddruhů.

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≈ 1/15,910th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0 kg
Body length
0.09 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Everything we know about the Alpine newt

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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Body length
0.09 m
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 yearsrecord 20 years · AmphiBIO
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Alpine newt yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familySalamandridae
  6. ›genusIchthyosaura
  7. ›speciesIchthyosaura alpestris
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. subfamilyPleurodelinae
  4. genusIchthyosaura
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  11. superfamilySalamandroidea
  12. familySalamandridae
  13. subfamilyPleurodelinae
  14. genusIchthyosaura
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Closest relative on this site
🦎 Fire salamander — last shared an ancestor ≈ 75 million years ago.
In other languages
čolek horský (cs), Ichthyosaura alpestris (es), alppivesilisko (fi), Triton alpestre (fr), alpesi gőte (hu), алпийски тритон (bg) … and 23 more languages
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