Cryptobranchus

Öhningen fossil skeleton as that of a newt, known as Cryptobranchus

The War with the Newts 2006

The videos below show two kinds of salamander, the terrestrial red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani) and the aquatic hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), engaging in their respective feeding behaviors.

David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits David Mizejewski 2011

The videos below show two kinds of salamander, the terrestrial red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani) and the aquatic hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), engaging in their respective feeding behaviors.

David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits David Mizejewski 2011

Ozark hellbenders, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi , have become so rare that in August the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing them as endangered and barring their export.

Green Movement's New Mascot: the Slimy Snot Otter Leslie Eaton 2011

The videos below show two kinds of salamander, the terrestrial red-legged salamander (Plethodon shermani) and the aquatic hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis), engaging in their respective feeding behaviors.

David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits David Mizejewski 2011

For its size, the park has one of the richest salamander faunas in the world with species that vary from the endemic pigmy salamander Desmognathus wrightii, to the aquatic hellbender Cryptobranchus alleganiensis.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States 2009

(Cryptobranchus japo­nicus, Sieboldia maxima, Tritomegas Sieboldii or Megalo­batrachus Sieboldii), but done in a way that was inaccurate, inartistic and downright dilletante.

The War with the Newts 2006

In a North American genus, however (Menopoma), which, though smaller in size, closely resembles Cryptobranchus in figure, there is a permanent gill-opening, though the gills themselves disappear in the adult,

The Common Frog 1874

The largest existing Urodele -- the gigantic Salamander (Cryptobranchus) -- is found in Japan, where it attains a length of 5 or 6 feet.

The Common Frog 1874

In Cryptobranchus (as in all the Urodela yet enumerated except Amphiuma), though the young have gill-openings and external gills, the adults are devoid of both.

The Common Frog 1874