Fire salamander
| Fire salamander | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Cless: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Caudata |
| Faimily: | Salamandridae |
| Genus: | Salamandra |
| Species: | S. salamandra |
| Binomial name | |
| Salamandra salamandra | |
| Synonyms | |
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The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is possibly the best-kent salamander species in Europe. It is black wi yellae spots or stripes tae a varyin degree; some specimens can be nearly completely black while on ithers the yellae is dominant. Shades o reid an orange mey sometimes appear, either replacin or mixin wi the yellae accordin tae subspecies.[2] Fire salamanders can hae a very lang lifespan; ane specimen lived for mair nor 50 years in Museum Koenig, a German naitural history museum.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ S. Kuzmin, T. Papenfuss, M. Sparreboom, I. H. Ugurtas, S. Anderson, T. Beebee, M. Denoël, F. Andreone, B. Anthony, B. Schmidt, A. Ogrodowczyk, M. Ogielska, J. Bosch, D. Tarkhnishvili, V. Ishchenko (2009). "Salamandra salamandra". IUCN Reid Leet o Threatened Species. Version 2013.1. Internaitional Union for Conservation o Naitur. Retrieved 28 September 2013. Cite has empty unkent parameter:
|last-author-amp=(help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors leet (link) CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) - ↑ Eric T.B. Francis (1934). "The anatomy of the Salamander". Oxford: Clarendon Press. Retrieved 12 Januar 2013.