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Саламандра🦎

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SpeciesCaudataSalamandridae
Amphibians

🦎Fire salamander

Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758)

노랑무늬영원(fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra) 또는 불도롱뇽은 유럽에서 유명한 도롱뇽목의 종이다. 몸은 검은색이며 노란 점이나 줄무늬가 있다. 일부 종들은 거의 완전히 검은색이며 그 밖의 다른 종들은 주로 노란색이다. 빨간색과 주황색의 색조가 보이는 경우가 있으며 아종에 따르면 노란색과 겹치거나 노란색에 대체되는 양상을 보인다. 노랑무늬영원은 수명이 매우 길 수 있다. 독일 자연사 박물관(Museum Koenig)에서 50년 이상 생존한 종이 있다.

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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

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  • 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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