Herp.-Salamander Families

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis
- Family-Cryptobranchidae
- Hellbender
- ~2 feet long
- east and central US
Andrias
- Family-Cryptobranchidae
- ~5 feet long
- China and Japan
Onchodactylus
- Family-Hynobiidae
- uses fast streams
- no lungs because it is bad for buoyancy
Hynobius keyserlingii
- Family-Hynobiidae
- lives in the highes latitudes (Siberia within the Arctic Circle)
- increases glycerol in cells, which increases osmolality and decreases freezing point
Randon sibiricus
- Family-Hynobiidae
- external fertilization
- females lay eggs on the spermatophore the male drops
Dicamptodon tenebrosus
- Family-Dicamptodontidae
- Pacific giant salamander
- entirely aquatic
- 300 days to hatch and 700 days for larvae to meta.
- Some pops are neotenic
Haideotriton
- Family-Plethodontidae
- Blind & neotenic cave salamander
Typhlomolge
- Family-Plethodontidae
- Blind & neotenic cave salamander
General info on Salamanders
- Order- Caudata
- 9 families
- 6 represented in fl

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Herp.-Salamander Families

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Herpetology

Updated

2011-10-30T06:32:41Z

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