There are three types left on the planet-the Japanese and Chinese giant salamanders and a much smaller American giant salamander called the hellbender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation International - Feature Articles] Reference

A newt -- aka a hellbender or mud puppy -- is a slimy amphibian with an uncanny ability to reinvent itself by regenerating limbs, eyes, jaws, a spinal cord, even its heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Sigman: The Newtiness of Newt] Reference

Salamanders, which thrive in moist environments that keep their skin wet, number 2 dozen species, from the pigmy salamander that is less than 2 inches at maturity to the hellbender, which is nearly 30 inches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

From looking much like a salamander or hellbender, the final instar librarian matures into a toadlike being.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just where do baby librarians come from?] Reference

Taking the shape of a hellbender, a fire elemental salamander leapt to the hearth, growling at the magick-soaked bottle in the grate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparks] Reference

Partly because I inherited a box full of them from my dad, but mostly because some of the first big fish I caught were on a hellbender.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mighty Jitterbug] Reference

He was entirely alone in the newt section where the great Japanese newt, the American hellbender, Andrias Scheuchzeri and a number of small amphibians, axolotls, eels, reptiles and frogs were exhibited.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War with the Newts] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States] Reference

There are only two species related to the hellbender: the.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic News] Reference

The hellbender, native to North America, is one of the world's largest salamanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

The data could lead the eastern hellbender closer to the federal endangered species list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

To: Secret Agent Man; hellbender; topcat54; muawiyah; Oztrich Boy; slimemold; Nosterrex; MNDude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Lipps is heading up an ongoing eastern hellbender survey in Kentucky with the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

The largest salamander found in North America, the hellbender can grow to up to 30 inches long and live 30 years or more.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

He read of a rumored Police Department shake up, and he could afford to smile at the vitality of that hellbender-like report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Never-Fail Blake] Reference

Agnew also found that the hellbender sperm cell-like those of other amphibian species-boasts a ribbon of tissue encircling the tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic News] Reference

For unexplained reasons, most hellbender populations have rapidly declined as very little reproduction has occurred in recent decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

Fish and Wildlife Service is currently reviewing whether to add the hellbender to the federal endangered species list, McGinnity said.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic News] Reference

(A. davidianus), which is close enough in size and shape and habits that the two can easily cross-breed, and the much smaller hellbender.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Blackaby placed the eastern hellbender, which swallowed the hook, in a fish basket in the river and called the department about his catch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

Kentucky does not have its own endangered species list, he said, but Ohio's Division of Wildlife lists the eastern hellbender as endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

April 14 (UPI) -- Eastern hellbender salamanders are being surveyed for the first time in Kentucky to determine where they are on the decline.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

The Ozark hellbender is a large, strictly aquatic salamander endemic to streams of the Ozark Plateau in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nature Conservancy] Reference

Those features make the eastern hellbender well suited to live under rocks in the clean, flowing water that it prefers since it breathes through its skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

"The hellbender in the United States is becoming endangered, and to make things more difficult, they are very secretive," said Agnew, a member of the college's Department of.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

"The other purpose is can we identify where good hellbender populations are and what potential threat there may be and what actions can we take to conserve them," Lipps said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference

This docile nature certainly helps scientists collect salamander sperm, which is "milked" out of a hellbender by rubbing it between the front legs and tail, said Nashville Zoo's.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Geographic News] Reference

"The work between Nashville Zoo and Michigan State University for the cryopreservation of hellbender sperm is a global model for the genetic management of threatened amphibians,".    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

As part of the project, the research team also is studying the comparative structure of hellbender sperm using electron photomicrographs, in collaboration with the MSU Center for.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

Cryptobranchid update: eastern hellbender/Ozark hellbender "North America's Largest Salamander". (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rescuing Earth From Humans] Reference

But I have to go with the hellbender.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mighty Jitterbug] Reference

I always like to tell people there's no rock too big for a hellbender, only rocks you can't lift. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

Ky. surveys hellbender salamanders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News - UPI.com] Reference

On Monday, MacGregor collected the hellbender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cincinnati.Com - All Local News] Reference