Salamanders lack claws, have a scale-free skin, either smooth or covered with tubercles, and a tail that is usually flattened from side to side and often finned.

Salamanders lack a valve separating the small intestine from the large intestine.

Salamanders range in size from the minute salamanders, with a total length of, including the tail, to the Chinese giant salamander which reaches and weighs up to.

Salamanders also secrete poison from glands in their skin, and some additionally have skin glands for secreting courtship pheromones.

Salamanders and frogs that produce less photolyase, an enzyme that counteracts DNA damage from UVB, are more susceptible to the effects of loss of the ozone layer.

Western Toads often make their appearance at nightfall, emerging from burrows in search of water and insects, while California Slender Salamanders are often found under the cool leaf litter and canopy of oak woodlands.

Eight amphibian species named in E. H. Taylor ’ s honor are still recognized as valid: Frogs: Hyalinobatrachium taylori ( Taylor ’ s Glass Frog, from the Guianas ), Platymantis taylori Taylor ’ s Direct-breeding Frog, Sierra Madre, Luzon, Philippines ), Craugaster taylori ( Taylor ’ s robber Frog, from Chaipas, Mexico ), Lithobates taylori ( Peralta Frog, from eastern Nicaragua & Costa Rica ); Salamanders: Ambystoma taylori ( Taylor ’ s Salamander, a neotenic salamander from Puebla, Mexico ), Bolitoglossa taylori ( Cerro Cituro Salamander, from Darien, Panama ), Oedipina taylori ( Taylor ’ s Worm Salamander, from Guatemala, El Salvador & Honduras ); Caecilians: Microcaecilia taylori ( Taylor ’ s Caecilian, from Suriname ).

* Salamanders ( Warhammer 40, 000 ), a Chapter from the fictional Warhammer universe

In his 1955 book, Salamanders and other Wonders, science author Willy Ley determined that the Mkodo tribe, Carl Liche, and the Madagascar man-eating tree itself all appeared to be fabrications.

Tiger Salamanders also carry ranaviruses which infect reptiles, amphibians, and fish.

# redirect List of amphibians of Korea # Salamanders

Silvery Salamanders LJJ ( A. platineum ), Tremblay's Salamanders LLJ ( A. tremblayi ), and Kelly's Island Salamanders LTT and LTTi ( A. nothagenes ) were initially described as species.

It is not certain that Mexican Tiger Salamanders were not included in the original shipment.

Despite differences in coloration and larvae, Tiger Salamanders were found throughout their unbroken range, which made it difficult to delineate subspecies, let-alone elevate any populations to species status.

Salamanders are generally similar to an oven without a front door, with the heating elements at the top.

In morphological terms, Tiger Salamanders are all very similar, with large heads, small eyes, and thick bodies.

They are closely related to the Giant Salamanders ( Family Cryptobranchidae ), with which they form the suborder Cryptobranchoidea.

Salamanders are distributed widely in the Holarctic region of the northern hemisphere.

Salamanders use their tails in defence.

Salamanders are at their most vulnerable at metamorphosis as swimming speeds are reduced and transforming tails are encumbrances on land.

Salamanders, caecilians and some frogs have one or two rows of teeth in both jaws but some frogs ( Rana spp.

* Petranka, James W. ( 1998 ) Salamanders of the United States and Canada, Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press.

" Salamanders " are kerosene space heaters used on construction sites to dry out building materials and to warm workers.

Salamanders regularly shed the outer layer of their skin ( the epidermis ) as they grow, and then eat the resulting slough.

Salamanders have no external ear, and only a vestigial middle ear.

Salamanders routinely regenerate complex tissues.

The Shadow also battles collectives of criminals, such as The Silent Seven, The Hand, The Salamanders, and The Hydra.

Pocomoke City held a franchise in the Eastern Shore Baseball League, at times hosting the Salamanders, the Red Sox, and the Chicks.

His son, Wade Wilder, is the inventor of the lesser known Sleepy Sleepy Salamanders.

These include Chinese Alligators, King Cobras, Galapagos Giant Tortoises, Pancake Tortoises, Gila Monsters, Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnakes, Rhinoceros Vipers, Green Tree Pythons, Madagascar Giant Day Geckos, Red-eared Sliders, California King Snakes, Solomon Islands Skinks, Blue Tree Monitors, Cave Salamanders, Amazon Milk Frogs, Spring Salamanders and several others.

Axolotls should not be confused with waterdogs, the larval stage of the closely related Tiger Salamanders ( Ambystoma tigrinum and Ambystoma mavortium ), which are widespread in much of North America and also occasionally become neotenic, nor with mudpuppies ( Necturus spp.

However, a terrestrial population of Mexican Tiger Salamanders occupies and breeds in the axolotl's habitat.

Her scream split up the silence of the car, accompanied by the rattling of the freight, and then Cappy came off the floor, his legs driving him hard.

In his view, there were three possibilities: ( 1 ) Korean did not belong with the other three genealogically, but had been influenced by an Altaic substratum ; ( 2 ) Korean was related to the other three at the same level they were related to each other ; ( 3 ) Korean had split off from the other three before they underwent a series of characteristic changes.

In New York, the New Normannii Reik of Theodish Belief was founded in 1997 and is led by Dan Halloran, but in 2009 many members split off and formed the Arfstoll Church of Theodish Belief, White Marsh Theod, and Álfröðull þjóð.

In the 13th century, the Principality of Anhalt was split off from the Duchy, and later, the remaining state was split into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg.

The vocational school was disbanded and the preparatory program was split off to form an independent Polytechnic School in 1907.

Then, the leaving group, usually a proton, is split off and the aromaticity is restored.

The leaving order is reversed in the E1cb mechanism, that is the proton is split off first.

The Cairo Governorate was just north of the Helwan Governorate from 2008 when some Cairo's southern districts, including Maadi and New Cairo, were split off and annexed into the new governorate, to 2011 when the Helwan Governorate was reincorporated into the Cairo Governorate.

At the same time, another part of the Colony of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, was split off to become the Colony of Cape Breton Island.

The systematic, factual description of geological formations of different ages contained in Principles grew so unwieldy, however, that Lyell split it off as the Elements in 1838.

Multiple cables to different rooms are split off the incoming cable with a small device called a splitter.

In the years following her artificial feeding conditions at Gombe, Jane Goodall described groups of male chimps patrolling the borders of their territory brutally attacking chimps which had split off from the Gombe group.

Australia has undergone a very long process of gradual aridification since it split off from Gondwanaland about 40 million years ago.

In djbdns, different features and services, such as AXFR zone transfers, are split off into separate programs.

Molecular evidence suggests that between 8 and 4 million years ago, first the gorillas, and then the chimpanzees ( genus Pan ) split off from the line leading to the humans ; human DNA is approximately 98. 4 % identical to that of chimpanzees when comparing single nucleotide polymorphisms ( see human evolutionary genetics ).

More recently, five species have been split off from Phoca, forming three additional genera.

As childhood adaptation to the reality principle developed, so too ' one species of thought activity was split off ; it was kept free from reality-testing and remained subordinated to the pleasure principle alone.

Phantasies thus both link to and block off the individual's unconscious, his kernel or real core: ' subject and real are to be situated on either side of the split, in the resistance of the phantasy ', which thus comes close to the centre of the individual's personality and its splits and conflicts.

They had split off from Brennus ' people in 279 BC, and had migrated into Thrace under their leaders Leonnorius and Lutarius.

Under occupation by the Allies, German territories were split off, denazification took place, and the Cold War resulted in the division of the country into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany.

The other sciences are generally more limited in their scope and may be considered branches that have split off from physics to become sciences in their own right.

If split off entirely, he leads to violence, substance abuse and sexual perversion.

India is entirely contained on the Indian Plate, a major tectonic plate that was formed when it split off from the ancient continent Gondwanaland ( ancient landmass, consisting of the southern part of the supercontinent of Pangea ).

Continuing problems with performance and abuse eventually led to the rise of another major IRC network, Undernet, which split off in October 1992.