Salamander Small tailed amphibian with weak limbs, which some resemble the unrelated lizard. Salamanders live both on land and in water, few are aboreal and burrowing. Salamanders avoid direct sunlight and most of them are nocturnal. There tails and limbs are regenerating. And they are gregarious at breeding time. Salamanders lay their eggs in ponds and Brooks where the eggs laid surrounded by a guillotine material, and the gill breathing larvae remain until the lungs develope .

In North America among the most unusual terrestrial salamanders is the red- backed and the slimy salamanders, which breed on land, the young stay in the gill breathing stage in the egg until their lungs . A salamander (measuring up to 12 in. long) of the northwest. Aquatic forms include the Congo eel (measuring up to 3 ft. long) this siren (this up to 30 in. long) also mud puppy all of these retain their gills throughout life, in the underground streams the pale yellow salamanders are blind.

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The Mexican axolotl actually stays in a permanent Laval form of the tiger salamander. In China and Japan the giant

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salamander may reach a length of over 5 ft. long.

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