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CHINESE GIANT SALAMANDER

• The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianas) is the world’ s largest amphibian, growing to lengths of up to 6 feet.

• It used to be common throughout central, southwestern and southern China, where it lives in streams in the forested hills and lays up to 500 eggs at a time in underwater burrows guarded by the male.

• However, the Chinese giant salamander has now almost completely disappeared due to its over-exploitation as a food source.

• It grows up to 1.8 metres in length, though most individuals found today are considerably smaller .

• The skin is dark brown, black or greenish in colour and irregularly blotched. It is also rough, wrinkled and porous which facilitates respiration through the skin as this large amphibian lacks gills .

• The Chinese giant salamander has an elongated body, and two pairs of legs which are roughly similar in size.

• The snout is less rounded than that of the related Japanese giant salamander and the tail is a little longer and broader.

• Both species have tubercles on the head and throat, though their arrangement is different.

• 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

• The eyes are tiny, with no eyelids, and positioned on top of the broad, flat head, providing the salamander with poor vision.

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