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Chinese Giant SalamanderEducational resources on Chinese Giant SalamanderChinese Giant Salamander or Andrias davidianus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Data Deficient . IUCN Profile of the Chinese Giant Salamander Giant Salamanders on Asia Trail - National Zoo| FONZ: ...to deforestation. Chinese Giant Salamander. Order: Urodela Family: Cryptobranchidae http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/GiantSalamanders/ Classification Key - Amphibians: 4a. Japanese Giant Salamander..... Megalobactrachus japonicus 4b. Chinese http://faculty.fmcc.suny.edu/mcdarby/Pages/ClassificationKey/ClassificationAmphibia.htm ADW: Andrias: Classification: ...hellbenders). pictures. Genus Andrias (Asian giant salamanders). pictures. Species http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Andrias.html ADW: Cryptobranchidae: Classification: ...salamanders). pictures. Species Andrias davidianus (Chinese giant salamander). http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Cryptobranchidae.html Nat'l Academies Press, Amphibians: (1974), Appendix A Status of: Species - Megalobatrachus japonicus japonicus (Japanese giant salamander) http://www.nap.edu/openbook/030902210X/html/131.html For Your Survival, You Need To Know . . .: Size: usually 10 to 15 cm long, but the Chinese giant salamander (andrias http://www.ccet.ua.edu/hhmi/pages/salamander.html AmphibiaWeb: The largest amphibian in the world is the Chinese Giant Salamander Andrias davidianus http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/amphibian/facts.html Mizuki's links: Japanese Giant Salamander (Andrias japonicus) is the largerst amphibian together http://www.people.memphis.edu/~biology/herp/Mizukilinks.html
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