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CADUCIBRANCHIATA. 



Cryptobrauclius Japonicus, Schlegel. (5) 



Synonyms, Salamandra maxima, Schlegel ; Megaloba- 

 trachus Sieboldii, Tschudi; Sieboldia maxima, Bonaparte? 

 Gray; Sieboldia Davidiana ? Blanchard. 



Color ferruginous brown bestrewed with blackish 

 spots ; above slightly shaded with green or olive ; upper 

 part of the body, and especially the head, with numer- 

 erous rugosities; mucous pores numerous and secrete a 

 disagreeable smelling humor. 



Habitat Japan and China. 



Related to the fossil Andrias found at Oeningen. 



Salamandrida. 



Synonyms, Gradientia, Oppel, Gray; Pseudo-sauriens, 

 De Blainville; Atretoderes, Dumeril and Bibron; Myc- 

 todera of some authors. 



Gill-slits perfectly closed in the adult state; skull 

 broad; palatines present in the young, and arranged as 

 in Tr achy stoma and Proteida, but change their relations 

 with the growth of the animal; nasal bones usually 

 large; dentaries and praemaxillae bearing teeth; limbs 

 four, well developed; anterior toes four; fourth finger 



