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AMPHIBIA. 
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Family 6.— SALAMANDRIDAL. (20 Genera, 85 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical Neargtic 
Sub-regions. S de-regions. 
Pale arctic Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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The Salamandridse, of which our common Newts are charac- 
teristic examples, form an extensive family highly characteristic 
of the North Temperate regions, a few species only extending 
into the Neotropical region along the Andes to near Bogota, and 
one into the Oriental region in Western China, The genera, as 
arranged by Dr. Strauch, are as follows : — 
Balamandra (2 sp.), Central and South Europe and North 
Africa ; Pleurodeles (1 sp.), Spain, Portugal, and Morocco ; Brady- 
bates (1 sp.), Spain ; Triton (16 sp.), all Europe except the 
extreme north, Algeria, North China and Japan, Eastern States 
of North America, California and Oregon ; Chioglossa (2 sp.) 
Portugal and South Europe ; Salamandrina (1 sp.), Italy to Dal- 
matia; EUipsoglossa (2 sp.), Japan; Isodactylium (2 sp.), East 
Siberia; Onychodactylus (1 sp.), Japan; Amblystoma (21 sp.), 
Nearctic region from Canada and Oregon to Mexico, most abundant 
in Eastern States ; Ranodon (1 sp.). Tartary and North-east China ; 
Bicamptodon (1 sp.), California; Plethodon (5 sp.), Massachusetts 
to Louisiana, and Vancouver’s Island to California ; Desmognathus 
(4 sp.), Eastern United States south of latitude 43° ; Anaides (1 
sp.), Oregon and Northern California; Hemidactylium (2 sp.), 
South-eastern United States and Southern California; Heredia 
(1 sp.), Oregon and California ; Spelerpes (18 sp.), Eastern United 
States from Massachusetts to Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and 
Andes of Bogota, with a species in South Europe ; Batraehoseps 
(2 sp.), South-eastern United States and California ; Tylotriton 
(1 sp.), Ynnan in West China. 
