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	Salamander - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Salamander habitat is generally restricted to mostly the northern hemisphere, with the exception of a few species living in the northernmost part of South America.
		In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, the salamander, along with the mythical phoenix, is a symbol of the firemen.
		In Battletech, the Salamander is a fearsome Clan anti-battlemech and anti-infantry battle armor that utilizes a flamethrower type weapon in conjunction with incendiary missiles.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Urodela (856 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - Slippery Salamanders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It's a Monday afternoon in late August and Dr Willem Schaftenaar is conducting an ultrasound scan on a large, brown, slippery amphibian; a giant Chinese salamander (Andrias davidianus).
		Schaftenaar is the zoo's Vet and this salamander is one of six that live in the warm, noisy atmosphere of Rotterdam Zoo's tropical house.
		He only discovered that the Chinese salamanders at Blijdorp were physically capable of breeding by conducting extensive studies of ultrasound scans and blood samples from both males and females.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/science/salamanders010828.html (697 words)

	Cryptobranchid Interest Group
		Chinese Giant Salamanders grow up to 59 inches (150 cm) in length, but individuals just reaching sexual maturity may be as small as 14 inches (35 cm).
		Normally, Chinese Giant Salamanders are of a mottled dark brown color.
		The breeding behavior of Chinese Giant Salamanders is rather unique and peculiar: During spawning season a male will occupy a den site an establish himself as "den master".
	www.caudata.org /cig/chinesegiant.html (248 words)

	California Wild Winter 1997 - Wild Lives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Based on their bone structure and pattern of external fertilization, the giant salamanders or Cryptobranchidae are among the most primitive of all salamanders.
		Besides having an ancient lineage, giant salamanders are the longest-lived amphibians; one captive Japanese specimen survived for 55 years.
		Giant salamanders are unusual for amphibians in that they lay their eggs in early autumn.
	www.calacademy.org /calwild/1997winter/stories/wildlives.html (1248 words)

	Chinese giant salamander - Andrias davidianus: More Information - ARKive (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Chinese giant salamander is the largest salamander in the world, and is fully aquatic, with many adaptations for this lifestyle.
		The Chinese species has small, paired tubercles arranged in rows parallel with the lower jaw, while the Japanese species’ tubercles are mostly single and irregularly scattered (6).
		Both the Chinese and Japanese giant salamanders are long lived, with one specimen in captivity living for 52 years (6).
	www.arkive.org.cob-web.org:8888 /species/GES/amphibians/Andrias_davidianus/more_info.html (934 words)

	Japanese Giant Salamanders on Asia Trail - National Zoo\| FONZ
		Japanese giant salamanders have no natural predators, but pollution and erosion are fouling their water, and their population declines indicate that their habitat needs protection before it's too late.
		Giant salamanders have sensory organs along their bodies and on their heads that can detect other animals in the water around them, which helps them hunt.
		Giant salamanders' broad, flattened bodies are streamlined for swimming at the bottom of fast-moving water.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/ZooGoer/2006/5/Giant_Salamanders.cfm (450 words)

	Giant Salamanders Lurk in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Fishermen in one of the salamander's last remaining habitats recently made headlines with complaints that the animal's unfettered breeding is cutting into the local population of sweetfish, a small fish prized by both people and salamander.
		The Japanese giant salamander was put under protection in 1951, after its population was threatened by mountain people who ate it as a source of protein.
		Thirty-million-year-old fossilized remains of giant salamanders have been found in Europe, but today the nearest equivalent in the West is the hellbender, a smaller salamander but the largest in North America.
	coloherp.org /cb-news/Vol-28/cbn-0108/GiantSala.html (742 words)

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		The Japanese giant salamander is the second largest salamander in the world, growing in length to a massive 1.5 meters.
		As a group newts and salamanders are often found in areas often not thought of for cold blooded animals such as far north (as far as Alaska) and in cold mountain streams (like the giant salamanders of China and Japan).
		The snout is less rounded than that of the related Japanese giant salamander and the tail is a little longer and broader.
	www.lycos.com /info/salamander--giant-salamander.html (438 words)

	Creatures of the Damp
		In fact, salamanders, which range in length from two inches to nearly six feet (the Chinese giant salamander), belong to the very different class called amphibians They are the nearest living descendants of the first vertebrates to leave water and live on land.
		Most salamander species live in such widespread areas that, even if some are lost because of logging, others will migrate in from neighboring woods as the logged forest recovers.
		Long-term survival of salamanders in captivity is problematic.
	www.newts.org /~newtsweek/html/creatures_of_the_damp.html (1752 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Hunting threat to big amphibians
		Illegal hunting is bringing the Chinese giant salamander, the world's largest amphibian, to the brink of extinction.
		With a maximum length of a metre and a half (5ft), the giant salamanders of China and Japan are truly huge compared with other amphibians.
		For some species, like the Chinese giant salamander, the question is whether mainstream sentiment will change fast enough to prevent them disappearing completely.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4259596.stm (732 words)

	Trinity Alps Giant Salamander
		This animal is reported to be one of the largest amphibians of recent time, possibly related to the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders.
		Comparativly, the Asian giant salamanders do not normally get bigger than 5 feet long, 6 at most, and are normally grey in color.
		In August 1997, an expedition was launched by a group called T.A.G.S.E. to look for the salamander, but unfortunaly, it did not find the giant salamanders.
	www.geocities.com /capedrevenger/giantsalamander.html (433 words)

	Giant salamander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Giant Salamanders (Cryptobranchidae) are aquatic amphibians found in brooks and ponds in the eastern United States, China and Japan.
		The Japanese Giant Salamander, for example, reaches five feet and feeds on fish and crustaceans, and can live for up to 80 years.
		In 1726 the Swiss physician Johann Jakob Scheuchzer described a fossil as Homo diluvii testis (Witness of the Great Flood), believing it to be the remains of a human being that drowned in the biblical Deluge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giant_salamander (282 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Worldwide Report Says Amphibians Are in Peril (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Chinese giant salamander -- at six feet the largest amphibian in the world -- sells for at least $300 on the street and makes for several meals, and it has now disappeared from nearly all its range.
		Developers and environmentalists are feuding in central California over the fate of the California tiger salamander, a striking fl animal with yellow spots.
		Federal officials estimate the salamander has lost 75 percent of its habitat over time, becoming a casualty of urbanization and agricultural development.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33569-2004Oct14?language=printer (832 words)

	Choosing an Amphibian
		Amphibians are divided into the salamanders, all of which have tails, some 400 species; frogs and toads, which are tailless, some 400 species; and the Caecilians, which have tails but no legs, 155 species, only one of which, the “rubber eel” appears in the pet trade.
		Amphibians range in size from a Brazilian frog that, at 1½ inches long, is the world's smallest four-legged animal to the 145-pound Chinese giant salamander, the largest amphibian, which approaches 6 feet in length.
		Salamanders have a keen sense of smell, using it and their quick and agile movements to find and capture prey.
	www.petplace.com /reptiles/choosing-an-amphibian/page1.aspx (840 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Chinese Giant Salamander
		Chinese giant salamander originated in Asia: scientists Jun 29, 2005
		Keqin from Beijing University and researchers of the United States found in their joint studies, the ancestors of Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus...
		BEIJING, Jan. 25 -- A bus driver found a 15-kilogram Chinese Giant Salamander on a road in Longgang District, the Daily Sunshine reported Monday.
	conservation.mongabay.com /news/Chinese_Giant_Salamander.htm (188 words)

	a salamander blog
		News is reporting that a set of giant salamander fossils have been found in Tasmania.
		While no Giant Salamanders were found, inside the Reptile house they did exhibit a good number of aquatic amphibians such as a Aquatic Caecilian, Typhlonectes natans, a Three-toed amphiuma, Amphiuma tridactylum, a Greater Siren, Siren lacertina, and one semi-terrestrial species the Emperor newt, Tylototriton shanjing.
		Of course, because a salamander was involved, I had to watch an episode and provide my review in the salamander blog.
	www.freelantzsolutions.com /plethodon/blog (1125 words)

	Seacoast Connects - Health: Chinese diners lay off the exotic animals
		Chinese diners are eating fewer owls, civets and other exotic wildlife due to fears of SARS and bird flu, according to a survey released Tuesday by the U.S. and Chinese conservation groups.
		BEIJING - Normally adventurous Chinese diners are eating fewer owls, civets and other wildlife due to fears of SARS and bird flu, according to a survey released Tuesday by U.S. and Chinese conservation groups.
		The wild animal species found in Chinese markets during the survey included pangolin, ostrich, cape barn owl, sika deer, Asian giant soft shell turtle, elongated tortoise, Siamese crocodile, king cobra and the Chinese giant salamander — but no civets, the groups said.
	seacoastconnects.com /health/041906hea1.html (647 words)

	Asia Trail: Giant Salamanders - National Zoo\| FONZ
		giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is somewhat smaller, and occurs in and along tributaries of the Pearl, Yellow, and Yangtze rivers in China.
		In the wild, giant salamanders breed in September, when their cool streams have the highest temperatures of the year.
		Habitat alteration—especially the channeling or damming of rivers and deforestation—destroys giant salamander habitat.
	nationalzoo.si.edu /Publications/ZooGoer/2003/2/GiantSalamander.cfm (216 words)

	Salamander - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Japan and China the giant salamander is found, which reaches 5 feet (1.5 m) and weighs up to 30 kilograms
		In the anime Legendz, Salamander is an anthropomorphic caudate who is relegated a role as a minor character.
		In the Pokemon franchise, the fire Pokemon Magmar and its evolutionary family of Magby and Booburn are all salamanders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salamander (1134 words)

	Chinese Giant Salamander :: Saint Louis Zoo
		The Chinese giant salamander is critically endangered, which means it faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
		Habitat conservation efforts like this are critical if the Chinese giant salamander is to survive in the wild.
		The Chinese giant salamander is one of just three species of giant salamander; the others are the Japanese giant salamander and the hellbender, found in the United States.
	www.stlzoo.org /animals/abouttheanimals/amphibians/salamandersandnewts/chinesegiantsalamander.htm (674 words)

	Chinese Diners Lay Off the Exotic Animals - CBS News
		Zhao Shengli, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese wildlife group, said the increase was due to a large and stable supply of legally farmed wild animals.
		The wild animal species found in Chinese markets during the survey included pangolin, ostrich, cape barn owl, sika deer, Asian giant soft shell turtle, elongated tortoise, Siamese crocodile, king cobra and the Chinese giant salamander _ but no civets, the groups said.
		The groups called on the Chinese government to strengthen its enforcement of the bans on hunting and sale of wildlife.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/04/18/ap/tech/printableD8H2NKAO1.shtml (632 words)

	W.E.S. - Chinese Giant Salamander (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Chinise Giant Salamander can be found in the north, central, south and southwest China.
		The Chinise Giant Salamander is a Giant; it measures 3.3 feet (1m) and is one of the world's largest salamander.
		One of the factors of the salamander's decline is the capitalization on medicine and food.
	library.thinkquest.org /19689/data/amphibians/chinese_salamander_frame.html (210 words)

	Giant Salamander Skull
		Giant Salamander Skull - Native to China, this species is the largest amphibian in the world growing over 6 feet long and weighing up to 60 lbs.
		Like most salamanders, the giant salamander is nocturnal.
		Loss of habitat and pollution from human encroachment, as well as being considered a delicacy in the Chinese culture has attributed to this species becoming very rare.
	www.skullsunlimited.com /giant_salamander_skull.html (132 words)

	AskMen.com - Endangered species
		The Chinese giant salamander is the world’s largest amphibian; it grows to as much as 110 pounds and five feet in length.
		The population of the giant salamander has fallen 80% since the 1960s.
		How it’s eaten: The primary method of cooking the Chinese giant salamander is by steaming it or simmering it in a soup.
	www.askmen.com /fashion/wine_dine_100/135b_wine_dine.html (640 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Amphibian species facing extinction, new study warns
		WASHINGTON — Amphibians are experiencing a precipitous decline across the globe, according to the first comprehensive world survey of the creatures, which include frogs, toads and salamanders.
		The Chinese giant salamander — at 6 feet the largest amphibian in the world — sells for at least $300 and makes for several meals, and it has now disappeared from nearly all its range.
		Gascon, at Conservation International, said "there are some actions we can take today to prevent the immediate extinction of many species as we work on a longer-term solution." These include creating parks and ecological reserves, working to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change and breeding animals in captivity in order to sustain vulnerable species.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002063891_frogs15.html (554 words)

	Cryptobranchidae (Fitzinger, 1826) Giant Salamanders
		The family Cryptobranchidae is comprised of three paedomorphic, fully aquatic species, commonly known as the giant salamanders.
		A molecular perspective on the evolutionary relationships of the salamander families.
		A molecular phylogenetic perspective on the evolutionary radiation of the salamander family Salamandridae.
	www.livingunderworld.org /caudata/database/cryptobranchidae (471 words)

	Exhibit
		As a facility unique in Europe and being inhabited by numerous interesting frog-, newt- and salamander species, the Vivarium has turned into a main attraction at Tierpark Chemnitz.
		The Vivarium was the result of the modification of an existing building, where previously the zoo's riding and work horses had been kept.
		Because of the large numbers of extremely rare species bred and kept here, the Vivarium has become a miniature Noah's Ark. Among the particularly endangered species are the Chinese giant salamander, various Amazonian poison dart frog species, axolotl and the red tomato frog.
	www.zoolex.org /zoolexcgi/view.py?id=707 (628 words)

	Conservation International - Feature Stories - Surviving on the Edge
		The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus)—the largest in the world at up to six feet in length—is another favorite menu item, but it’s not farmed commercially and many populations are in danger of being eaten out of existence.
		Whatever its cause, chytridiomycosis has spread to frog and salamander populations like a plague, killing entire populations in a matter of months.
		After these ecological assaults, it’s no wonder that many frogs and salamanders are on the brink of extinction.
	www.conservation.org /xp/frontlines/species/10260403.xml (773 words)

	Korea Travel: Busan Aquarium (Busan City)
		Of special interest are the 2.5-meter- long shark and giant turtle.
		Other facilities include a resting place, outdoor park, and parking lot on the ground floor.
		Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus): it is the largest salamander species in the world- the first appearance to the public in Korea.
	www.lifeinkorea.com /Travel2/pusan/346 (512 words)

	Frogs: A Chorus of Colors \| American Museum of Natural History
		With just over 160 species known, this is the smallest group of amphibians.
		Salamanders have short legs, lanky bodies, and long tails.
		Many salamanders are small, but the group includes the largest of all amphibians - the five-foot Chinese giant salamander.
	www.amnh.org /exhibitions/frogs/intro/whatis.php (118 words)

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