. Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools;. ley and It is a veryvoracious scavenger of the water, and bites the hookfiercely. It is noted for its great tenacity of life underunfavorable conditions. The only other living repre-sentative of this family is the Japanese giant salamander,which becomes three metres long. The Amblystomidae5 include some twenty-five speciesbelonging to five genera, four of which occur in northern O O o and eastern Asia, and the fifth, Amblystoma, is confinedto the United States and Mexico, excepting one specie
. Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools;. ley and It is a veryvoracious scavenger of the water, and bites the hookfiercely. It is noted for its great tenacity of life underunfavorable conditions. The only other living repre-sentative of this family is the Japanese giant salamander,which becomes three metres long. The Amblystomidae5 include some twenty-five speciesbelonging to five genera, four of which occur in northern O O o and eastern Asia, and the fifth, Amblystoma, is confinedto the United States and Mexico, excepting one species,occurring in Siam. The common species of New Englandand the Central States is known as the Spotted Sala- 1 Hporeys, a sea-god possessed of the power of changing himself intodifferent shapes. 2 Probably a modification of a native name. 3 /cpiTrros, hidden ; /3/>d7xio;>, S1^- 4 Fig. 242. 5 From d/i/SMs, blunt; crT6, mouth. 8 258 ZOOLOGY mander. It is about 15 centimetres long, and black, witha series of yellow spots on each side of the back. It lays • ••1111,-v^ ^—*MniK». ^*_;v FIG. 242. — Cryptobranchus, the hellbender. Reduced. From .Stand-ard Natural History. eggs in springs or ponds during April; the dark grayeggs are contained in great masses of jelly which are
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