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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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Japanese Giant SalamanderEducational resources on Japanese Giant SalamanderJapanese Giant Salamander or Andrias japonicus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to B1+2cd. IUCN Profile of the Japanese Giant Salamander Giant Salamanders on Asia Trail - National Zoo| FONZ: Asia Trail. Japanese Giant Salamander. Order: Urodela Family: Cryptobranchidae http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/GiantSalamanders/ id=spl-1 Asia Trail: Giant Salamanders - National Zoo| FONZ: The Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) is the largest species, reaching http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2003/2/GiantSalamander.cfm id=spl-2 Mizuki's links: The Japanese Giant Salamander (Andrias japonicus) is the largerst amphibian together http://www.people.memphis.edu/~biology/herp/Mizukilinks.html id=spl-4 Classification Key - Amphibians: Cryptobranchus alleganiensis. 4a. Japanese Giant Salamander.. http://faculty.fmcc.suny.edu/mcdarby/Pages/ClassificationKey/ClassificationAmphibia.htm id=spl-5 ADW: Andrias: Classification: ...pictures. Species Andrias japonicus (Japanese giant salamander). Home - About Us - http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Andrias.html id=spl-6 ADW: Cryptobranchidae: Classification: ...pictures. Species Andrias davidianus (Chinese giant salamander). pictures. Species http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Cryptobranchidae.html id=spl-7 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 id=spl-8 LISSAMPHIBIA: Some aquatic species are rather large. Cryptobranchus (hell bender) is 60 cm; http://users.tamuk.edu/kfjab02/Biology/Vertebrate%20Zoology/b3405_ch11.htm id=spl-9
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