34 SALAMANDEID^. 



8. SALAMANDEELLA. 



Salamandrella, Bylowshy, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1870, p. 237 

 Isodactylium, Strauch, Salam. p. 56. 



Tongue large, elliptical, lateral borders free, anterior borde 

 slightly free. Palatine teeth in two series converging backwards 

 meeting in an acute angle, with two short recurved branches in front 

 thus forming a ^-shaped figure. Toes four. Tail compressed. 



Eastern Siberia. 



1. Salamandrella keyserlingii. 



Salamandrella keyserlingii, Dyhoieshf, I, c. pi. 7. 

 Isodactylium schrenckii, Strauch, I. c. p. 56, pi. 2. f. 1. 



Median branches of palatine teeth slightly curved, with the con 

 vexity outwards; recurved branches directed backwards. Hea( 

 moderately depressed, longer than broad ; snout rounded ; eye 

 rather large, prominent ; no labial lobes. Body slightly depressed 

 thrice and two thirds to four times and a third the length of the head 

 Limbs rather short, not meeting when adpressed against the body 

 fingers and toes rather short, depressed, free; carpal and tarsa 

 tubercles indistinct. Tail as long as, or shorter than the head am 

 body, strongly compressed, keeled, the end rounded. Cloaca i 

 longitudinal slit with swoUen borders, subspherical. Skin smooth 

 twelve or thirteen costal grooves, extending across the belly; ; 

 median dorsal groove ; parotoids large, flat, behind the angle of th^ 

 jaws ; a groove from the eye to the gular fold, which is strong! 

 marked. Brown, lighter beneath ; median zones of body immaculate 

 bordered by an undulous blackish line ; a blackish vertebral line 

 sides with small dark spots. 



d. 5. 



Total length 95 126 millim. 



From snout to cloaca .... 52 63 „ 



Head 11 12 



Width of head 9 9| 



Pore limb 13 16 ',' 



Hind limb 15 18 



Tail 43 63 '', 



UsBuri and Schilka Rivers ; Lake Baikal. 



"■ c?. River Schilka. St. Petersburg Musem 



[E.]. 

 6 Several spec: (J,?, Lake Baikal. Warsaw Museum fE.! 



&yg. ■ ■ 



c-d. 2- Lake Baikal. Godeffroy Museum. 



2. Salamandrella wosnessenskyi. 

 Isodactylium wosnessenskyi, Strauch, I. c. p. 58, pi. 2. f. 2. 

 Yery closely allied to the preceding, from which it differs i 



