Animals by Scientific Class Names

Egretta sacra,Pacific Reef-egret,Pacific Reef Heron, Eastern Reef Egret

Features：Strong territorial awareness

Pacific Reef-egret is a medium-sized wading bird with two subspecies.Pacific Reef-egret is a species with a high sense of territory. Most of them move alone, sometimes in pairs or in small groups as a family unit, occupying a small reef or coast. It usually only appears on rocky shores, often standi...

Ardea insignis,White-bellied Heron,Imperial Heron

Features：Timid and alert, flies away when seeing people

White-bellied Heron is a large migratory wading bird with no subspecies.White-bellied Heron is a migratory species. It often moves alone or in small groups of 4-5. It is timid and alert, and will fly away when it sees people. Although the flapping of its wings is slow during flight, the speed is ver...

Gorsachius goisagi,Japanese Night-heron,Chestnut-headed Night Bittern, Chestnut-headed Tiger Bittern, Heron

Features：A short, brown heron.

The Japanese Night-heron is a migratory bird that breeds in Japan. Except for some that stay in the southern part of the breeding grounds to overwinter, most of them migrate to Taiwan, China and the Philippines to overwinter. During migration, some of them pass through Shanghai, Hong Kong, Fujian an...

Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus, baby salamander, baby salamander

Features：When alive, the entire back side is purple-brown with irregular khaki or yellow spots, which are larger on the back and fewer or absent on the rear tail.

The yellow-spotted Hypoderma davidiana lives in high mountainous areas with an altitude of 1100 to 1845 meters. The mountains are covered with thorny bushes, bamboos, and weeds. There are abundant water sources, and the upper reaches of the ditches are mostly swamps. There are many limestone caves i...

Liua tsinpaensis

Features：When alive, the head is brown with a few small golden spots, and the middle part of the body and tail is an irregular cloud of golden yellow and a few dark brown patches.

Habitat: This salamander lives in and near small mountain streams at an altitude of 1770-1860m. The stream has a small amount of water, a small slope, and many gravels on the bottom of the water. The streamside is mainly composed of herbaceous plants and shrubs.Habits: Adult salamanders live on land...

Liua shihi,Babirusa

Features：It has a stout body, a flat head, smooth skin, and a round tail base that gradually flattens toward the back.

Habitat: This salamander lives in mountainous areas with an altitude of 900 to 2350m. Adults mostly live in small mountain streams, which are generally 1 to 2m wide and 10 to 25cm deep, with rich vegetation on both sides.Habits: Adult salamanders mainly feed on aquatic insects such as Trichoptera an...

Salamandrella keyserlingii,Water snake

Features：The head is flat, the eyes are big, the tongue is big, the tail is flat and short, the skin is smooth and blue-brown, there are black vertical stripes on the head and the midline of the back, and the belly is light gray.

The Arctic salamander, also known as the water snake, can be called a "living fossil". It is an ancient rare animal with an evolutionary history of 230 million years. In April 2022, photography enthusiasts from Dongfanghong Forestry Bureau Co., Ltd. found two relatively rare Arctic salaman...

Salamandrella keyserlingii,Giant salamander, water lizard

Features：It is afraid of heat and light, has a slim, round and slender body, a round and flat head, smooth and soft skin, four limbs, and looks very similar to a gecko.

The Xinjiang giant salamander is commonly known as the giant salamander or the water four-legged snake. It belongs to the class of amphibians, the order of caudate, the suborder of Cryptobrachiidae, and the family of Hynobiidae. It is an ancient rare animal that developed in the same era as dinosaur...

Onychodactylus zhangyapingi，

Features：The fundamental difference between it and other Hylobatids is that it has black keratin claws on the tips of its fingers and toes, and it does not have the respiratory organ - lungs - that other Hylobatids have, which is rare among amphibians.

The Jilin clawed salamander (scientific name Onychodactylus zhangyapingi) is an animal of the genus Onychodactylus of the family Hynobiidae in the order Caudata. It has a slender body, smooth skin, and a black and yellow marble pattern on its back. It has an elongated head with a rounded snout, two...

Onychodactylus zhaoermii

Features：The ridge groove from the back of the head to the base of the tail is more obvious, the skin on the back of the body is smooth, and there is a shallow longitudinal groove from the back corner of the eye to the neck fold;

Liaoning clawed salamander is endemic to China. It is found in densely vegetated mountainous areas at an altitude of about 600m. It often lives near the source of streams or springs with cool water and many stones. It comes out of hibernation in early April and lives on land, but not far from the wa...

Protohynobius puxiongensis

Features：The head is flat, the eyes are large and protruding, the limbs are well developed, the forelimbs are thinner, and the hind limbs are thicker.

Puxiong Prosaurus is a tailed amphibian of the family Hynantheidae and genus Prosaurus. In 1965, scholars from the Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, collected specimen No. 1 of Prosaurus in an abandoned cellar for storing potatoes beside a stream at an altitude of 2,900 mete...

Hynobius maoershanensis,Maoershan Hynobiid

Features：The head is large and slightly flat, and its color varies when alive. When in water, the back is black or yellow-green. When out of water, the back of the body is yellow-green or light purple-brown with no spots.

The Maoershan Small Salamander lives in the swamps and surrounding areas of the mountainous areas with an altitude of 1978 to 2015 meters. The vegetation nearby is mainly southern hemlock and mountaintop dwarf forests. It likes to eat a lot of small invertebrate aquatic organisms, such as earthworms...

Hynobius guabangshanensis,South Henan Small Salamander, Qishan Little Elf, Qiyang Small Salamander, Giant Salamander

Features：It is similar to the Anji Hypsilophis davidianus, but this species is smaller in size. Its back is black or dark brown when alive, and slightly yellow-green under sunlight.

The Guabangshan Small Salamander lives in Guabangshan in Qiyang, Hunan. The highest peak of the mountain is 788 meters above sea level. Below 400 meters above sea level is the rice field area, and a few rice fields can reach about 600 meters. The salamander mainly lives in small mountain ponds, swam...

Hynobius chinensis,Chinese Salamander

Features：The head is relatively large, with the length of the head being greater than its width, and the back of the body and tail is almost uniformly black or brown-black.

The Chinese salamander (scientific name: Hynobius chinensis) is an animal of the Hynobiidae family and the genus Hynobius. It is an ancient species dating back 300 million years and developed in the same era as dinosaurs. In 1889, a foreigner named Günther first discovered it in Xuanchang, Hubei, a...

Hynobius amjiensis,anji hynobiid

Features：The base of the tail is nearly round, gradually flattened backwards, the dorsal fin fold is low and obvious, and the tail tip is blunt. The skin on the back of the body is smooth, with a longitudinal skin groove from behind the eyes to the neck fold; there is a ridge groove in the center of the back.

Anji Hynobius amjiensis is an amphibian of the Hynobiidae family and Hynobius genus, and is endemic to China.Anji Hynobius amjiensis has very strict requirements for habitat and water. This species lives in the humus layer under the peat moss in the swamp and enters the puddle during the spawning se...

Gorsachius magnificus,White-eared Night-heron,Hainan night bittern, Hainan tiger bittern, white-eared night heron

Features：It is listed as one of the 30 most endangered birds in the world. It is extremely rare and is known as "the most mysterious bird in the world."

Hainan bittern is called White-eared Night-heron in foreign language. It is similar in shape and size to a heron. It is a medium-sized wading bird with no subspecies differentiation.Hainan bittern is partly resident and partly migratory. They usually hide during the day and come out at night, especi...

Ixobrychus minutus,Little Bittern

Features：Can swim in water, but is extremely clumsy

Little Bittern, also known as Little Bittern in English, is a small wading bird with 5 subspecies.Little Bitterns move in pairs during the breeding season, in family activities in the late breeding period, and mostly move alone at other times. It often walks along the shore of the water with big str...

Platalea minor,Black-faced Spoonbill,Black-faced Spoonbill, Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Spoonbill, Little Spoonbill, Spoon-billed Goose

Features：The forehead, throat, face, eye area and eye sockets are all black, and blend into the black of the mouth.

Black-faced Spoonbill is a medium-sized wading bird with no subspecies.The Black-faced Spoonbill looks very similar to the White Spoonbill, and they are often confused in the wild. It is slightly smaller than the white spoonbill, and its feathers are all snow-white. In summer, there is a long hair-l...

Platalea leucorodia,Eurasian Spoonbill,Spoonbilled Heron, Spoonbilled Heron

Features：The mouth is long, straight, flat and wide like a pipa

The Eurasian Spoonbill is a large wading bird with three subspecies.The populations of Eurasian Spoonbill that breed in northern China are all summer migrants. They migrate from the southern wintering grounds to the northern breeding grounds in spring from early to late April, and migrate south in a...

Plegadis falcinellus,Glossy Ibis

Features：Good at flying, with green and purple upper body

The Glossy Ibis, also known as the Glossy Ibis in English, is a dark chestnut ibis with a shimmering color. It looks like a large dark curlew and has no subspecies.When flying, the painted ibis stretches its head and neck forward, and its feet extend behind its tail feathers. It mainly relies on the...

Boulenophrys baolongensis,Baolong Heterohorned Toad

Features：This species is similar to the pale-shouldered horned toad, but this species has no marginal membrane on the toes, no webs between the toes, no large dark brown spots on the back of the head and body, and larger dark spots on the chest and abdomen.

The dragon-horned toad hides under the rocks or in the grass by the stream during the day. At night, the male toads often make chirping sounds on the rocks by the stream. They stop chirping under the electric light and do not escape. The tadpoles live in the streams with cool water quality, and ofte...