Salamander

Posted December 22nd, 2007 by Anonymous

Salamander (orig. from Persian: sām , "fire", and andarūn , "within") is the common name applied to approximately 500 species of amphibians typically with slender bodies, short legs, and long tails. The moist skin of these amphibians usually makes them reliant on habitats in or near water or under some protection on moist ground, often in a swamp. Some species are aquatic throughout life, some take to the water intermittently, and some are entirely terrestrial as adults. They lay shelless eggs in water. They are capable of regenerating lost limbs. Salamanders split off from the other amphibians during the Mesozoic, and initially were similar to modern members of the Cryptobranchoidea. Any resemblance to lizards is the result of the basic tetrapod body plan, as they are no more closely related to lizards than they are to mammals. Their nearest relatives are the caecilians, little known legless amphibians.

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