Paramesotriton guangxiensi

The Guangxi scrofula lives in mountain streams with a relatively gentle flow at an altitude of 470 to 500 meters. The stream water is clear, the bottom of the water is mostly stones and mud, and the shrubs and weeds on both sides are dense. During the day, it often hides under the rocks at the bottom of the stream, in the piles of rotten leaves or in the grass by the stream, and rarely moves; it is rarely seen in the stream sections with fast currents. After heavy rain, they often move around in large rock cracks or grass 0.5 to 1 meter away from mountain streams.

When swimming, the limbs are close to the body, and the tail swings to move slowly. When it was raised indoors, it was fed earthworms, ate normally, and grew well. When hunting, it aimed its head at the food and suddenly bit it like a gecko. It jumped out of the water tank for several days without dying.

<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Ari al, sans-serif; The Guangxi scrofula occasionally makes a "wā, wā" sound, which is not loud. Most of them go out to look for food at night, often lying quietly at the bottom of the stream. When aquatic insects and other small animals pass by their mouths, they quickly open their mouths to bite them and then slowly swallow them. Fragments of moth food have been found in their stomachs. When they are raised indoors, they are fed earthworms, eat normally, and grow well. When hunting, they aim their heads at the food, suddenly rush and bite the food immediately, and then swallow it. If they escape from the breeding tank, they can live for several days in a humid environment without dying. When swimming, their limbs are close to their bodies, and they move slowly by swinging their tails.

In China, it is distributed in Guangxi (Paiyang Mountain, Ningming City, and the suburbs of Fangchenggang City). Abroad, it is distributed in the northeast of Cao Bang, Vietnam.

It lives in mountainous areas at an altitude of 470-500m. Adult salamanders often live in streams with slow currents and dense shrubs and weeds on both sides. They often lie under the rocks at the bottom of the stream during the day, and are rarely seen in streams with fast currents. They go out at night to forage for aquatic insects and other small animals.

The head is flat, with the length of the head greater than its width; the length of the snout is significantly greater than the diameter of the eyes, and the tip of the snout is truncated; the nostrils are located on the outside of the tip of the snout; there are glandular ridges on the sides of the head, the skin is relatively rough, covered with warts or moles, the central ridge on the back is very obvious, connected to the V-shaped ridge on the occipital part; there are no costal grooves, the warts on both sides of the back of the body are large, arranged in longitudinal rows and extending to the front half of the tail; there are transverse grooves on the trunk and tail; there are no neck folds, and there are flat warts on the pharynx, chest and abdomen.