Amphibia · Caudata
Onychodactylus zhaoermiiChe, Poyarkov, Yan, 2012
Liaoning Clawed Salamander
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A nocturnal salamander reaching 176 mm nose to tail.
Amphibia › Caudata › Hynobiidae › Onychodactylus
- Grows to
- 176.1mm
- greatest recorded
- Active
- Nocturnal
- Red List
- Near Threatened
Longer than 54% of all species in Hynobiidae anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 62.6 to 268 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
10 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
- Population trend
- Decreasing
as reported by the IUCN Red List
Size
- Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- 76.9mm3 in
- Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- 65.3mm2.5 in
- Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- 176.1mm7 in
mean adult female snout-to-vent length
mean adult male snout-to-vent length
total length, tail included — AmphibiaChina, 2022. The database of Chinese amphibians. Accessible at http://www.amphibiachina.org.
How it lives
- Active
- Nocturnal
Breeding
- Average clutch
- 8.49
midpoint of the reported range — Pincheira-Donoso, Harvey, Cotter, Stark, Meiri, and Hodgson, 2021, Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 30:1299-1310
Naming and history
- Described by
- Che, Poyarkov, Yan
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- No
- Described in
- 2012
Keeping one
No enclosure size is given here
Swiss law sets amphibian enclosure sizes family by family, and this family is not among the ones its table names. No figure is given rather than one borrowed from a different kind of animal.
Swiss Tierschutzverordnung (TSchV), SR 455.1, Anhang 2, Tabelle 6 — legally binding minimum enclosure sizes for amphibians, given as multiples of total body length and stated for two animals.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Still living
- — Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · greatest
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Longest recorded life
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Diet
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How it hunts
- — Where it lives
- — Reproduction
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Smallest clutch recorded
- — Largest clutch recorded
- — Mean clutch · smallest reported
- — Mean clutch · largest reported
- — Clutches in a year
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Venomous
- — Fangs
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Limbs
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- — Red List criteria
- — Region
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Suborder
- — Infraorder
- — Subspecies
- — Type locality
- — Habitat
- — Active in
- — Mainland or island
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
- — Highest it lives · above sea level
- — Range size
Others in Hynobiidae
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Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Onychodactylus zhaoermii. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/onychodactylus-zhaoermii
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- Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.
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