Salamanders range in size from the minute salamanders, with a total length of 27 mm (1+1⁄8 in), including the tail, to the Chinese giant salamander which...

tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum) is a species of mole salamander and one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in North America. These salamanders usually...

The mole salamanders (genus Ambystoma) are a group of advanced salamanders endemic to North America. The group has become famous due to the study of the...

Caudata (or Urodela, the salamanders), and Gymnophiona (or Apoda, the caecilians). It has been suggested that salamanders arose separately from a temnospondyl-like...

torrent salamanders or Cascade salamanders are a family of salamanders (Rhyacotritonidae) with only one genus, Rhyacotriton. The torrent salamanders have...

which has caused severe declines in fire salamanders in parts of its range. Several subspecies of the fire salamander are recognized. Most notable are the...

The Cryptobranchidae (commonly known as giant salamanders) are a family of large salamanders that are fully aquatic. The family includes some of the largest...

The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world. It is fully aquatic...

The Pacific giant salamanders are members of the genus Dicamptodon. They are large salamanders endemic to the Pacific Northwest in North America. They...

in fact on some level, since many species of salamander, including fire salamanders and Alpine salamanders, excrete toxic, physiologically active substances...

lungless salamanders, are a family of salamanders. With over 500 species, lungless salamanders are by far the largest family of salamanders in terms of...

generations of salamanders having to adapt to falling from their habitat. A large adult can inflict a painful bite. Arboreal Salamanders hatch from eggs...

become paedomorphic, or with mudpuppies (Necturus spp.), fully aquatic salamanders from a different family that are not closely related to the axolotl but...

learning in spotted salamanders. Researchers found that spotted salamanders can associate visual landmarks with food. Thus spotted salamanders may learn landmarks...

The Asiatic salamanders (family Hynobiidae) are primitive salamanders found all over Asia, and in European Russia. They are closely related to the giant...

pygmy salamander (Desmognathus wrighti). These two species differ greatly from the other Desmognathus species. They are the smallest salamanders in the...

the olm (Proteus anguinus), all "cave salamanders" are members of the family Plethodontidae ("lungless salamanders"). Almost all of them are paedomorphic...

the adult salamanders are terrestrial. Like many salamanders, marbled salamanders have poison glands to deter predators. The marbled salamander is the state...

Government. It is one of the only six species of giant salamanders in the world. The Japanese giant salamander can grow to a length of 5 feet (1.5 m) and a weight...

than ringed salamanders. Similar to ringed salamanders, marbled salamanders also breed in fall, while the other species spotted salamander breeds in spring...

central Mississippi. Mud salamanders are rarely seen plethodontids that inhabit muddy wetland and riparian habitats. Mud salamanders don’t generally live...

referred to as "torpedo furnaces", "salamander furnaces", or simply, "salamanders". Salamander heaters date back to at least 1915. In the early 1940s, W.L. Scheu...

Alpine salamanders produce toxic compounds from their skin. These compounds may protect them from both predator and microbial threats. Alpine salamanders are...

Plethodon is a genus of salamanders in the family Plethodontidae. They are commonly known as woodland salamanders. All members of the genus are endemic...

The red salamander (Pseudotriton ruber) is a species of salamander in the family (Plethodontidae) (lungless salamanders) endemic to the eastern United...

States (all other Aneides salamanders are found west of the Mississippi River). Rarely seen in the field, the green salamander is an extremely habitat-specific...

Brook salamanders are a genus, Eurycea, of salamanders native to North America. The genus Eurycea was first described by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz...

the (red-backed) striped salamander's prey while the unstriped salamanders miss this opportunity. This allows striped salamanders to feed on springtails...

tiger salamanders eat very little. Breeding takes place after the first rains in late fall and early winter, when the wet season allows the salamanders to...

The genus Onychodactylus, commonly known as clawed salamanders, is composed of three species, all endemic to eastern Asia. O. koreanus is found on the...