The salamander is a national protected animal

Giant salamander. It is a national second-class protected amphibian wild animal, and the giant salamander is also known as the giant salamander, which belongs to the family of cryptogill salamanders, and the giant salamander genus.

It is the largest and most precious amphibian in the world.

Its cry is like the cry of a baby, so people call it the baby fish. The giant salamander is commonly known as the big pepper fish, because it has the taste of mountain pepper.

Habit. Adult salamanders generally inhabit the caves and stone caves in the deep pools of the rivers below 1000 meters above sea level, and are more common in the caves above and below the beach mouth, the hole is not big, in and out of a mouth, the depth of the hole is different, and the hole is spacious and flat. During the day, they often lie in the cave and rarely go out, and in summer and autumn, they also have the habit of going ashore to forage for food or bask in the sun during the day.

Giant salamanders generally come out at night and return in the morning, and often live in a cave. Predation is mainly carried out at night, often waiting among the rocks at the beach mouth, and suddenly opening its mouth to hunt when it finds a huntable animal passing by.

Morphological characteristics. The giant salamander has a flat, blunt and round head, a large mouth, underdeveloped eyes, and no eyelids. The front of the body is flattened, and the tail gradually turns to the side.

There are obvious skin folds on both sides of the body, the limbs are short and flattened, and the fingers and toes are four in front and five in the back, with slightly webbed. The tail is rounded, with fins above and below the tail. The body color of giant salamanders can vary depending on the environment, but it is generally grayish-brown in color.

The body surface is smooth and scaleless, but there are various markings and mucus. The ventral surface of the body is pale in color.

The salamander isNational second-class protected animals

The baby fish is the giant salamander, which is a cryptogill salamander family and a giant salamander genus.

Tailed amphibians.

The body is large and flattened, generally 582 to 834 mm in length, 310 to 585 mm in head, and the largest individual can reach more than 200 cm in length.

The head is large, flat and broad, the head length is slightly greater than the head width; The male salamander has a raised anus, oval, large anal hole, and small milky white particles on the inner wall; The female salamander has no bulge in the anus, the cloaca anal hole is small, the periphery is concave inward, the inner wall of the hole is smooth, and there are no milky white small particles.

Generally, it often inhabits the caves and stone caves in the deep pools of rivers below 1000 meters above sea level, and is more common in the caves above and below the beach mouth, and has a wide range of feeding habits, mainly crabs, frogs, fish, shrimps and aquatic life.

Insects, and their larvae.

It is mainly distributed in Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi in China.

The giant salamander was created 360 million years ago in the Paleozoic era.

Ancient amphibians that evolved from aquatic fish during the Devonian period.

Chinese giant salamander. Lives in clear, low-temperature streams or natural caves, inhabiting mud or shady rock crevices.

Generally, it is found in mountain streams, rivers and lakes with turbulent currents, cool water quality, lush aquatic plants, many stone crevices and caves, and sometimes also moves between the roots of trees on the shore or on the trunks of fallen trees, and chooses to inhabit in caves at the mouth of the beach with backflow, and there is generally only one cave per cave. The depth of the cave varies, the entrance is slightly larger than its body, the cave is spacious, there is enough space for it to maneuver, and the bottom of the cave is relatively flat or has fine sand.

Giant salamander.