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SALAMANDRA .—Brogniart. 



Genus Salamandra. — Characters. Body elongated; tail long; extremities 

 four; fingers four; toes five; no tympanum; numerous small teeth in the jaws 

 and palate; tongue as in frogs; no sternum; ribs rudimental; pelvis suspended by 

 ligaments. 



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SALAMANDRA DORSALIS.— Harlan. 



Plate X. 



Characters. Head and body above, olive colour, with a tinge of green; on 

 each side of the mesial line is a row of bright, circular, vermilion spots; throat 

 and abdomen orange, studded with small black dots; tail longer than the head, 

 neck, and trunk; sides greatly compressed throughout its whole extent. 



Synonymes. Salamandra dorsalis, Harl., Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil., vol. vi. p. 101. 



Description. The head is short, broad behind, and rather pointed at the snout; 

 the nostrils are anterior; the eyes are full and prominent; the pupil black; the 

 iris flame colour; the neck and body are the same size as the head, and cylindrical 

 in form. 



The anterior extremities are small and delicate, and terminate in four small 

 fingers; the posterior extremities have more than twice the bulk of the anterior, 

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