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SpeciesCaudataCryptobranchidae
Amphibians

🦎Chinese giant salamander

Andrias davidianus (Blanchard, 1871)

中國大鯢（學名：Andrias davidianus）是大鯢屬的一種，俗名中國娃娃魚、娃娃魚、海狗魚，乃生活在淡水中的兩棲動物。目前世上最早的化石出土於中國内蒙古，距今约1.65億年，所以中國大鯢可被稱為活化石。1988年《中華人民共和國野生動物保護法》將之列為国家二级重点保护野生动物。

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Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
4.1 kg
Body length
0.9 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Chinese giant salamander

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

Body mass
4.1 kg
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

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

Maximum lifespan
20 yearsmaximum recorded
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Gestation
55 days
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data quality: low

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

Litter size
about 500
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data quality: low

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

Volume l
4.1 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 Chinese giant salamander yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familyCryptobranchidae
  6. ›genusAndrias
  7. ›speciesAndrias davidianus
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. familyCryptobranchidae
  4. genusAndrias
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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. superfamilyCryptobranchoidea
  12. familyCryptobranchidae
  13. genusAndrias
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Closest relative on this site
🦎 Japanese giant salamander — last shared an ancestor ≈ 9.5 million years ago.
In other languages
チュウゴクオオサンショウウオ (ja), Chinese reuzensalamander (nl), 中国大鲵 (zh), Salamandra olbrzymia chińska (pl), סלמנדרת ענק סינית (he), Salamandre géante de Chine (fr) … and 21 more languages
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