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SpeciesCaudataSalamandridae
Amphibians

🦎Alpine newt

Ichthyosaura alpestris (Laurenti, 1768)

De alpenwatersalamander (Ichthyosaura alpestris) is een salamander uit de familie echte salamanders (Salamandridae). De alpenwatersalamander is een middelgrote soort en een van de kleurrijkste watersalamanders. Een typisch kenmerk is de helder oranje gekleurde, ongevlekte buik. De salamander komt voor in Europa en voornamelijk in Centraal-Europa inclusief Nederland en België. In deze landen is de soort echter niet algemeen. De salamander leeft van kleine waterdieren en is een deel van het jaar op het land te vinden. De salamander is dan vooral op regenachtige dagen actief. Overdag zijn te vinden onder stenen, boomstammen, tussen boomwortels of andere vochtige plekken. De alpenwatersalamander kan meer dan 20 jaar oud worden in het wild.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2024.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
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Body length
0.09 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
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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.

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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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