Species of salamander, possibly the fire salamander, Salamandra salamandra. De Quadrup. oviparis, de Salamandra. Woodcut engraving after an illustration by Lucas Schan and Conrad Gessner from Conrad Gessner’s Historiae Animalium, De Quadrupedibus Oviparis, (Natural history of animals: oviparous quadrupeds), Frankfurt, Wechel for Cambier, 1586.

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