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Summary[
edit] Description: English: The photo represents the most common parental care behaviours performed by the male Andrias davidianus - (a) tail fanning; (b) agitation; (c) egg eating; and (d) shaking. Date: 2018. Source: Luo Q, Tong F, Song Y, Wang H, Du M, Ji H. Observation of the Breeding Behavior of the Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus) Using a Digital Monitoring System. Animals (Basel). 2018;8(10):161. Published 2018 Sep 25. doi:10.3390/ani8100161. Author: Luo Q, Tong F, Song Y, Wang H, Du M, Ji H.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Egon Heiss, Nikolay Natchev, Michaela Gumpenberger, Anton Weissenbacher and Sam Van Wassenbergh
Wikimedia Commons
Summary[
edit] Description: English: Main muscles involved in prey capture in Andrias davidianus. Date: 6 May 2013. Source: Heiss Egon, Natchev Nikolay, Gumpenberger Michaela, Weissenbacher Anton and Van Wassenbergh Sam 2013Biomechanics and hydrodynamics of prey capture in the Chinese giant salamander reveal a high-performance jaw-powered suction feeding mechanismJ. R. Soc. Interface.1020121028. Author: Egon Heiss, Nikolay Natchev, Michaela Gumpenberger, Anton Weissenbacher and Sam Van Wassenbergh.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Andrew A. Cunningham, Samuel T. Turvey, Feng Zhou, Helen M. R. Meredith, Wei Guan, Xinglian Liu, Changming Sun, Zhongqian Wang and Minyao Wu
Wikimedia Commons
Summary[
edit] Description: English: A photo showing a typical Chinese farm for Andrias davidianus. Date: 5 February 2015, 14:31:27. Source: Cunningham, A., Turvey, S., Zhou, F., Meredith, H., Guan, W., Liu, X.,.. Wu, M. (2016). Development of the Chinese giant salamander Andrias davidianus farming industry in Shaanxi Province, China: Conservation threats and opportunities. Oryx, 50(2), 265-273. doi:10.1017/S0030605314000842. Author: Andrew A. Cunningham, Samuel T. Turvey, Feng Zhou, Helen M. R. Meredith, Wei Guan, Xinglian Liu, Changming Sun, Zhongqian Wang and Minyao Wu.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) for sale in a restaurant in Hongqiao (虹桥), Wenzhou, Zhejiang, PR China. The price was 880RMB/jin (0.5 kg). Date: 7 February 2013, 13:20:47. Source: Own work. Author:
Micromesistius.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Summary[
edit] Description: Deutsch: Chinesischer Riesensalamander (Andrias davidianus). Date: 29 January 2009. Source: Own work. Author:
Haplochromis. Licensing[
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: Andrias davidianus in Shanghai Aquarium Deutsch: Chinesischer Riesensalamander (Andrias davidianus) im Aquarium in Shanghai. Date: 24 August 2009. Source: Own work. Author:
J. Patrick Fischer.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: A Bayesian tree showing phylogenetic relationships between different A. davidianus clades. Date: 2019. Source: Liang, Z‐Q, Chen, W‐T, Wang, D-Q, et al. Phylogeographic patterns and conservation implications of the endangered Chinese giant salamander. Ecol Evol. 2019; 9: 3879– 3890.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5014. Author: Liang, Z‐Q, Chen, W‐T, Wang, D-Q, et al.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: A. davidianus. Date: 2019. Source: Turvey ST, Marr MM, Barnes I, et al. Historical museum collections clarify the evolutionary history of cryptic species radiation in the world's largest amphibians. Ecol Evol. 2019;9(18):10070-10084. Published 2019 Sep 16. doi:10.1002/ece3.5257. Author: Turvey ST, Marr MM, Barnes I, et al.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502403, AR502404, AR502405, and AR502406 images of the same specimen, USNM 76983. Envelope Notes Verbatim: USNM 76983, Megalobatrachus davidianus, China.
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: The photo depicts a giant chinese salamander at ZSL London Zoo. Date: 25 October 2020, 12:45:16. Source: Own work. Author:
Pito22.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502407 is an image of molds of specimens, USNM 69456 and USNM 69879. Envelope Notes Verbatim: Megalobatrachus japonicus 69879, 68061; Megalobatrachus davidianus 69456, 69457.
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Summary[
edit] Description: English: The image represents the process of oviposition in the Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus): (a) the female begins discharging eggs; (b) the male and the female’s tails cross; (c) the male moves to the entrance of the den; and (d) the female body bends into a U-shape. Date: 2018. Source: Luo Q, Tong F, Song Y, Wang H, Du M, Ji H. Observation of the Breeding Behavior of the Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus) Using a Digital Monitoring System. Animals (Basel). 2018;8(10):161. Published 2018 Sep 25. doi:10.3390/ani8100161. Author: Luo Q, Tong F, Song Y, Wang H, Du M, Ji H.
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Four juveniles were collected from the spring at the mouth of the cave by a local resident who lives about 200 meters from the Cave. Her family kept the salamanders in a pool in their yard for four years, feeding them gold fish. The four individuals now weigh about 2.0 to 2.5 kilograms each. We took two of the individuals to Kunming. The cave is the water supply for the town and the mouth of the cave is too small for people to enter to capture an unknown small number of adults. Juveniles swim out of the cave each January and, if found by residents of the town of 35,000 people, are collected and raised for food. According to the mayor of the town, between 50 and 100 juveniles are caught each year. There are no Andrias farms in the town and the people just keep them until they want to eat them or someone wealty comes to the town to buy one. The residents are mostly Yi Minority. Zili Fang, the Deputy Directoy of the Sichuan Department of Environment has know about this population for over 15 years. He made arrangements for us to meet the Mayor who took us to the house where the four salamanders were kept. The small river, starting about 20 meters from the mouth of the cave is extremely polluted and silted. No salamanders have been seen for many years anywhere except the mouth of the cave. This river is a tributary of the huge Yangtze River where Andrias are now completely extinct. According to Zili Fang there are less than a dozen wild populations left in Sichuan. All are thought to be quite small and all associated with clear streams in the immediate vicinity of caves or in small tributaries of the Yangtze the flow out of uninhabited mountains. We think the Small Fish Cave population consists of only one or two adult pairs based on the small number of juveniles that are found each January. The Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) and the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) are considering a project to sequence the entire genome of Andrias. If so, this specimen, form an exact locality and now a vouchered specimen at KIZ will be the one used for the project.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502407 is an image of molds of specimens, USNM 69456 and USNM 69879. Envelope Notes Verbatim: Megalobatrachus japonicus 69879, 68061; Megalobatrachus davidianus 69456, 69457.
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Chinese giant salamander in Prague Zoo
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Four juveniles were collected from the spring at the mouth of the cave by a local resident who lives about 200 meters from the Cave. Her family kept the salamanders in a pool in their yard for four years, feeding them gold fish. The four individuals now weigh about 2.0 to 2.5 kilograms each. We took two of the individuals to Kunming. The cave is the water supply for the town and the mouth of the cave is too small for people to enter to capture an unknown small number of adults. Juveniles swim out of the cave each January and, if found by residents of the town of 35,000 people, are collected and raised for food. According to the mayor of the town, between 50 and 100 juveniles are caught each year. There are no Andrias farms in the town and the people just keep them until they want to eat them or someone wealthy comes to the town to buy one. The residents are mostly Yi Minority. Zili Fang, the Deputy Director of the Sichuan Department of Environment has known about this population for over 15 years. He made arrangements for us to meet the Mayor who took us to the house where the four salamanders were kept. The small river, starting about 20 meters from the mouth of the cave is extremely polluted and silted. No salamanders have been seen for many years anywhere except the mouth of the cave. This river is a tributary of the huge Yangtze River where Andrias are now completely extinct. According to Zili Fang there are less than a dozen wild populations left in Sichuan. All are thought to be quite small and all are associated with clear streams in the immediate vicinity of caves or in small tributaries of the Yangtze that flow out of uninhabited mountains. We think the Small Fish Cave population consists of only one or two adult pairs based on the small number of juveniles that are found each January.
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Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Vertebrate Zoology, Division of Amphibians & Reptiles
NMNH Herpetology in DwC A
General Description: AR502409 is an image of molds of the limbs of specimens, USNM 68061, USNM 69456, and USNM 69879. Envelope Notes Verbatim: Megalobatrachus japonicus 69879, 68061; Megalobatrachus davidianus 69456, 69457.