URODELA

Democratic Republic of Germany 1963Czheckoslovakia 1989Czheckoslovakia 1989
Fire Salamander
Salamandra salamandra
(Salamandridae)
Alpine Newt
Triturus alpestris
(Salamandridae)
Carpathian Newt
Triturus montandoni
(Salamandridae)
Slovenia 1993Mexico 1988North Korea 1992
Blind Cave Salamander
Proteus anguineus
(Ambystomatidae)
Axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum
(Ambystomatidae)
Korean Salamander
Hynobius leechii
(Hynobiidae)


Slovenia 1992 ALUMINUM
Blind Cave Salamander
Proteus anguineus
(Ambystomatidae)
(URODELA)

Andersons Newt
Tylototriton andersoni
(Salamandridae)
(URODELA)
Japanese Fire Belly Newt
Cynops pyrrhogaster
(Salamandridae)
(URODELA)
Sword-tailed Newt
Cynops ensicauda
(Salamandridae)
(URODELA)
Giant Salamander
Andrias japonicus
(Cryptobranchidae)
(URODELA)
Axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum
(Ambystomatidae)
(URODELA)
Odaigahara Salamander
Hynobius boulengeri
(Hynobiidae)
(URODELA)
Japanese Clawed
Salamander
Onychodactylus japonicus
(Hynobiidae)
(URODELA)


The original amphibians are differentiated to model suitable for landlubbing life and model suitable for water life from the Carboniferous period (230,000,000 years before - 280,000,000 years before) to the Permian period (200,000,000 years before - 200,003,000 years before) . For the model that was suitable by underwater life of the latter, it was a characteristic that a hand and foot were small and had a long tail, diplocaulus was known for a fossil, and Urodela of salamander and newt is evolved from now on.
The salamander is limited to the Northern Hemisphere Temperate Zone part, but slightly invades South America and northwest Africa. The appearance resembles a lizard. Generally the larva holds an external gill having four limbs, but the figure resembles a parent having a tail. There is the thing which is crude that it is smooth to skin, and there is not the scale. There is the thing without lungs even if it become the mature form. It like cold districts, and there are an aquatic thing and the thing of the coming up out of the ground, and there can be the thing that the thing of the few climbs the tree.

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