The world’s largest living amphibians are the Chinese giant salamanders (genus Andrias) native to rivers and streams in central, southern and eastern China (and now also introduced to Japan).
The largest reported individual to date – captured near Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China, in the 1920s – measured 1.75 metres (5 feet 9 inches) long, though a more typical length for wild specimens today is around 1.15 metres (3 feet 9 inches).
Long thought to consist of a single species (Andrias davidianus), a study published in Ecology and Evolution on 16 September 2019 identified two new members of the family: the South China giant salamander (A. sligoi) and another as-yet-unnamed species
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