🦎Japanese giant salamander
The Japanese giant salamander is a species of fully aquatic giant salamander endemic to Japan, occurring across the western portion of the main island of Honshu, with smaller populations present on Shikoku and in northern Kyushu. With a length of up to 5 feet (1.5 m), it is the third-largest salamander in the world, being surpassed only by the very similar and closely related Chinese giant salamander and the South China giant salamander.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 26 kg
- Body length
- 1.36 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 55 years
Everything we know about the Japanese giant salamander
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass26 kgAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.36 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan55 yearsrecord 70 years · AmphiBIOAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Gestation60 daysAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter sizeabout 500AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Dietarthropods, vertebratesAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l26 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Japanese giant salamander yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderCaudata
- ›familyCryptobranchidae
- ›genusAndrias
- ›speciesAndrias japonicus
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- familyCryptobranchidae
- genusAndrias
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- superfamilyCryptobranchoidea
- familyCryptobranchidae
- genusAndrias
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