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Fire Salamander — printable fact sheet
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Fire Salamander
Salamandra salamandra
Salamandra salamandra is a glossy black amphibian splashed with yellow, and the pattern is an honest warning. The bulging parotoid glands behind its eyes, and rows of pores down its back, contain samandarin and related steroidal alkaloids — neurotoxins that cause convulsions and…
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- Some fire salamanders can live over 50 years in captivity, making them one of the longest-lived amphibians.
- A fungal disease, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, arrived in Europe from Asia in the trade in pet salamanders and effectively annihilated the Dutch fire salamander population, with crashes exceeding 99 percent within a few years of its detection in 2010 — it is now the defining threat to the species. Their yellow-on-black patterning is unique to each individual, so researchers can identify wild salamanders from photographs alone without any marking. Females can store sperm for years and produce young from a single mating long afterwards. Larvae in the stream are cannibalistic and will eat their smaller siblings when food is short.
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