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Саламандра🦎

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SpeciesCaudataSalamandridae
Amphibians

🦎Fire salamander

Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758)

火蠑螈（學名：Salamandra salamandra），又名真螈、火螈，可能是歐洲最為著名的一種蠑螈。牠們呈黑色，有黃色斑點或斑紋。一些標本甚至是全黑或以黃色為主色，有時會有紅色及橙色的。牠們的壽命可以非常長，在德國的亞歷山大·柯尼希博物館就有一隻火蠑螈達50歲。火蠑螈在歐洲中古時期，在人們心中曾與煉金術、魔法有個糾葛不清的神秘關聯，以沙羅曼達之名著稱，因此在後來這個名稱被拉丁化作為蠑螈的學名。

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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