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• Öhningen fossil skeleton as that of a newt, known as Cryptobranchus
• 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...
• The largest existing Urodele -- the gigantic Salamander (Cryptobranchus) -- is found in Japan, where it attains a length of 5 or 6 feet.
• 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.