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Саламандра🦎

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SpeciesCaudataSalamandridae
Amphibians

🦎Fire salamander

Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758)

La Salamandre tachetée (Salamandra salamandra) est une espèce d'urodèles de la famille des Salamandridae. En français elle est également nommée salamandre terrestre, salamandre commune ou salamandre de feu. Le nom vernaculaire salamandre tachetée généralement attribué à l'espèce Salamandra salamandra peut également s'appliquer à d'autres espèces ou sous-espèces du genre Salamandra présentant un motif tacheté, comme la salamandre nord-africaine Salamandra algira, ou encore la salamandre maculée Ambystoma maculatum. Il s'agit de l'un des urodèles les plus répandus et les plus reconnaissables d'Europe.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
Common Fire Salamander
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.02 kg
Body length
0.28 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Fire salamander

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

Body mass
0.02 kg
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

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

Figures vary

  • 0.04 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.28 m
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
24 yearsrecord 24 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

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

Volume l
0 Laverage
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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 Fire salamander yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familySalamandridae
  6. ›genusSalamandra
  7. ›speciesSalamandra salamandra
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. subfamilySalamandrinae
  4. genusSalamandra
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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. subfamilySalamandrinae
  14. genusSalamandra
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Closest relative on this site
🦎 Alpine newt — last shared an ancestor ≈ 75 million years ago.
In other languages
火蠑螈 (zh), Salamandra plamista (pl), Salamandra salamandra (es), foltos szalamandra (hu), Salamandra salamandra (it), Píntega común (gl) … and 27 more languages
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