Animals by Scientific Class Names

Tylototriton verrucoosus Anderson, fine warty newt, golden unicorn newt, red gecko, water gecko, baby snake

Features：The spine is significantly raised, and there is a row of 14 to 16 spherical scrofula on each side of the body. The body color is brown-red or brown-yellow.

Red warty newt is a tailed amphibian of the family Salamandridae and the genus Warty Newt. It lives in mountainous areas with lush forests, overgrown weeds and near rice fields at an altitude of 1,000 to 2,400 meters. Adult newts live on land. In the non-breeding season, they often live under grass...

Tylototriton broadoridgus

Features：The body is stout, with a brown or dark red base color, and the warts on the sides of the body and the limbs are bright yellow or orange.

The beautiful newt is a tailed amphibian of the Salamandridae family and the genus Salamandridae. It lives in the rainforests in the valleys between mountains at an altitude of 1450-1550m. The vegetation in the ecological environment is dense, and the adult newts hide in the still water pits (ponds)...

Tylototriton pseudoverrucosus

Features：The body is slender, with large scrofula on the sides of the body, and the ventral surface of the head, body and limbs is brown-red or brown-black or has brown-black or brown-red markings on it.

The southern Sichuan newt is a tailed amphibian of the Salamandridae family and the genus Salamandridae. It lives in mountainous areas at an altitude of 2300-2800m and inhabits secondary forest belts. Adult newts often move in still water areas and wetlands, preying on small aquatic insects and moll...

Tylototriton kweichowensis,Miaopo snake, Tuha scale, painted stone

Features：The body shape and body color are similar to those of the fine-spotted newt, but the dorsal ridge and the warts on the sides of the body are red, and there are also continuous red longitudinal lines on the sides of the body.

Guizhou wart newt is a tailed amphibian of the family Salamandridae and the genus Wart Newt. It lives in small water pits, slow-flowing streams, small ponds and their vicinity in mountainous areas at an altitude of 1800 to 2300 meters, surrounded by weeds or dwarf shrubs, silt or gravel and fine san...

Liangshantriton taliangensis,Taliang Knobby Newt,Tylototriton taliangensis,Daliang warty newt

Features：The trunk is stout, the tail is long and narrow, the skin is very rough and covered with warts, and the body and tail are brown-black or black.

The big newt is a tailed amphibian of the family Salamandridae and the genus Salamandridae. It lives in mountain depressions with dense vegetation and humid environment at an altitude of 1390-3000 meters. It mainly lives in water bodies with a water depth of 54.59-60.93 cm, pH 5.16-7.18, water tempe...

Cynops orphicus,Shantou Salamander

Features：There is an irregular longitudinal orange-red stripe in the middle of the ventral surface of the body.

The Chaoshan salamander is a tailed amphibian of the family Salamandridae and the genus Salamandridae. It lives in mountainous areas with an altitude of 640 to 1,600 meters. During the breeding season, adult salamanders are mostly active in still ponds and swamps, often living in ponds with a depth...

Andrias davidianus,Chinese Giant Salamander,Andrias scheuchzeri davidianus、Megalobatrachus davidianus、Sieboldia davidi,Giant salamander, mermaid, baby fish, foot fish, crying fish, wax dog

Features：The body is large and flat, the head is large, flat and broad, and there are irregular black or dark brown markings on the dorsal and ventral surfaces, and some have unclear markings.

The giant salamander is an ancient amphibian that evolved from aquatic fish in the Devonian period of the Paleozoic Era 360 million years ago. It usually lives in caves and stone caves in deep pools of streams and rivers below 1,000 meters above sea level. It is more common in caves above and below...

Hynobius yiwuensis

Features：The morphology is similar to that of the Chinese salamander, with the ventral surface of the body being grayish white without any spots.

Yiwu small salamander lives in hilly and mountainous areas with an altitude of 100 to 200 meters. Except for the breeding season, it lives on land and is often found under loose and moist soil, stones or rotten branches and leaves. Its traces are rarely found on the ground, except after heavy rain i...

Hynobius sonani,Chunan's Salamander

Features：The base color of the back is light brown, yellowish brown or pinkish brown, with irregular dark brown spots scattered on it, and dense spots in the middle of the body.

Chunan Hynobius is a tailed amphibian belonging to the Hynobiidae family and the genus Hynobius. It lives in high and cold mountainous areas at an altitude of 2750 to 3500 meters. It often lives under stones in dense forests and overgrown weeds or under stones beside mountain streams. Its habitat is...

Hynobius leechii,Northeastern China Salamander,Water snake, baby salamander, water snake, mullet

Features：The head is flat and oval, the tail is flattened laterally, the eyes are large but not very protruding, and the back of the body is dark gray or gray-brown.

The Northeast Hypsilophis davidianus lives on land during the non-breeding season, hiding during the day and coming out at night, and also going out on rainy days. It often moves and forages in the dead branches and leaves, under rocks, fallen trees or in the grass on the hillsides on both sides of...

Hynobius nanhuensis

Features：The back is light yellowish brown with irregular but evenly distributed short black-brown stripes.

Nanhu Hypsilophis lives in high-altitude mountainous areas with harsh environments. The population is very small and it is endemic to China.It is listed in the second level of the "List of National Key Protected Wildlife in China"....

Hynobius fucusLai and Lue, 2008

Features：The sides and belly are brown with light yellow spots.

The Guanwu Small Salamander lives in mountainous areas at an altitude of 1200-2100m, where the vegetation is a mixed forest of mangroves and conifers. Adult salamanders live under dark and damp stones or rotten leaves. Their population is rare and difficult to find. The breeding season is mainly in...

Hynobius formosanus,,Formosan Hynobiid、Taiwan SalamanderTaiwan Salamander

Features：The back of the body is brown or dark brown, with no patterns or with golden spots.

Taiwan's small salamander lives by mountain streams at an altitude of about 2,100 meters, or in the fallen leaves at the bottom of the forest. When it is young, it looks like a fish, breathing with gills, and only switches to breathing with lungs when it grows up. Although Taiwan's small sal...

sonani arisanensis Maki,1922,Taiwan small salamander, Alishan small salamander, earth dragon

Features：The head is flat, and the trunk is about 3 times the length of the head; the tail ends in a blunt tip. The skin on the back of the body is smooth, with a longitudinal groove in the middle of the dorsal spine.

Alishan Small Salamander is an animal of the genus Small Salamander of the family Small Salamander. It lives in the middle and high mountainous areas with lush vegetation at an altitude of 2000 to 3650 m. Adults often live in slow-flowing streams under forests, swamps and places with rich mosses. Ad...

Batrachuperus yenyuanensis,Qianghuo fish

Features：The body is slender, the tail is long, the tail muscles are weak, the back is dark brown or yellowish brown, and there are irregular light-colored cloud spots.

The ecological environment of the Yanyuan Mountain Stream Salamander is generally 1 to 2 meters wide and no more than 1/3 meter deep. There are relatively dense coniferous plants on both sides of the creek to cover the surface of the creek. There are large and small stones, gravel, coarse sand, dead...

Batrachuperus tibetanus,Giant salamander, Qianghuo fish, mountain pepper, fir fish

Features：The back of the body has fine linen spots or no spots.

The Tibetan stream salamander is a tailed amphibian adapted to plateaus or cold mountain streams. It is distributed at an altitude of 1500 to 4300 meters, but mostly in mountain streams above 3000 meters. In areas with northern latitudes, the altitude is generally lower, such as the Nanjiang area of...

Nisaetus cirrhatus,Changeable Hawk-eagle, Crested Hawk-Eagle

Features：Slender body, short crest on head

The Crested Hawk-Eagle is a large forest raptor with 5 subspecies.The Crested Hawk-Eagle is a resident bird. It often moves alone and is alert. It likes to live on the highest dead branches at the top of the canopy of a large tree close to the edge of the forest and surrounded by open areas, so as t...

Circaetus gallicus,Short-toed Snake-Eagle,Accipiter ferox,Circaetus ferox,Circaetus gallicus ferox,Circaetus gallicus gallicus,Circaetus gallicus heptneri,Circaetus gallicus hypoleucos,Circaetus hypol

Features：Usually silent in winter, with occasional plaintive meowing

Short-toed Snake-Eagle, also known as Short-toed Snake-Eagle in English, is a large bird of prey with 4 subspecies.The short-toed eagle is extremely rare in all parts of China. It is a breeding bird in Xinjiang, a winter migratory bird in Gansu, and an occasional migratory bird in Beijing, Liaoning,...

Spilornis cheela,Crested Serpent-eagle,Crested Serpent Eagle,Great crested vulture, snake eagle, snake eagle, white-bellied snake eagle, crowned snake eagle, crested snake eagle

Features：It makes a sad sound and mainly feeds on various snakes.

The Crested Serpent-eagle is a large or medium-sized eagle with 21 subspecies.Snake eagles often choose clear weather to fly, flying alone or in small groups with rising hot air currents into the air and spreading their wings. At this time, under the slightly forward-leaning wide and long wings, a w...

Adrian Toomes,Cinereous Vulture,Griffon vulture, Griffon vulture, Griffon vulture, Mountain vulture, Eurasian black vulture

Features：The color of the body changes when fighting for food

Vulture is a large bird of prey with no subspecies.Vultures are resident birds, some of which migrate or wander after nesting. They are resident birds in Northeast China, northern North China, Northwest China and northwestern Sichuan. It is an occasional winter migratory bird in Taiwan, Hong Kong, t...

Sarcogyps calvus,Red-headed Vulture,,Indian Black Vulture

Features：Red head, neck and legs and white ruff are the distinguishing features

The black vulture, also known as the Red-headed Vulture, is a large bird of prey with no subspecies.The black vulture is bold and aggressive, often acting alone or in pairs. It usually does not fly in the early morning, but stands still on branches or rock peaks, quietly waiting for the sun to heat...