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2Axolotl🦎

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SpeciesCaudataAmbystomatidae
Amphibians

🦎Axolotl

Ambystoma mexicanum (Shaw & Nodder, 1798)

Axolotl (latin Ambystoma mexicanum) er en vandlevende halepadde der lever i Mexico. Axolotl har et specielt udseende og en speciel egenskab nemlig, at den altid er i larvestadiet. Den undergår ikke metamorfosen til voksenstadiet; dette forhold kaldes neoteni. Filologerne diskuterer om navnet axolotl, som kommer fra aztekernes sprog nahuatl, stammer fra atl som betyder vand og xolotl som betyder hund, eller navnet er afledt af navnet på aztekernes dødsgud Xolotl, som ifølge myterne antager en amfibisk form for at undgå eksil. Andre påstår at axolotl betyder vandets tjener.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Videos
52
Photos
6
Measurements
3
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
not recorded
Body length
0.3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
17 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Axolotl

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

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

Maximum lifespan
17 yearsrecord 17 years · AmphiBIO
AnAge
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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

Gestation
18 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Not recorded for Axolotl yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familyAmbystomatidae
  6. ›genusAmbystoma
  7. ›speciesAmbystoma mexicanum
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. familyAmbystomatidae
  4. genusAmbystoma
All 13 branches ↓
  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. familyAmbystomatidae
  13. genusAmbystoma
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More about the Axolotl

Closest relative on this site
🦎 Alpine newt — last shared an ancestor ≈ 149 million years ago.
In other languages
Ambystoma mexicanum (es), 墨西哥钝口螈 (zh), Ambystoma meksykańska (pl), 아홀로틀 (ko), אקסולוטל מקסיקני (he), Axolotl (fr) … and 27 more languages
More photos
2AxolotlAjolote albinoAmbystoma mexicanum Natural History Museum University of Pisa (cropped)
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