Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . theAlps and the mountains of Central Europe, close to the snow-line,and up to an altitude of 3,000 metres. Salamandra maculosa (Spotted Salamander, fig. 121), distributedthroughout almost the whole of Europe, and also found in NorthAfrica. Triton cristatiis (Crested Newt), likewise common all overEurope. Triton marmoratus (Marbled Newt, fig. 122), which is met within damp and dark places, in Portugal, Spain, South and CentralFrance, and as far north as the Forest of Fontainebleau. Cryptobranchus japonicus (Great Japanese Salamander


Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . theAlps and the mountains of Central Europe, close to the snow-line,and up to an altitude of 3,000 metres. Salamandra maculosa (Spotted Salamander, fig. 121), distributedthroughout almost the whole of Europe, and also found in NorthAfrica. Triton cristatiis (Crested Newt), likewise common all overEurope. Triton marmoratus (Marbled Newt, fig. 122), which is met within damp and dark places, in Portugal, Spain, South and CentralFrance, and as far north as the Forest of Fontainebleau. Cryptobranchus japonicus (Great Japanese Salamander, ), which often exceeds 1 metre in length, and has a clumsy ^ Brehm (Sauvages translation), Les Merveilles de la Nature—Reptiles etBatraciens (Paris, 1885). 314 VENOMS body covered with large warts, and an enormous head, broadbehind and flattened in front. This giant salamander is now confined to a few provinces in thecentre of Japan, between long. 34 and 36, in damp, shady places,from 200 to 800 metres above sea-level. It is eaten by the Japanese,. Fig. 121. — Salamandra maculosa (Europe and North Africa).


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