Batrachuperus cochranae

IUCN

Alias：Batrachuperus cochranae,Qianghuo fish, fir fish, white dragon

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：Batrachuperus cochranae
Aliases：Batrachuperus cochranae,Qianghuo fish, fir fish, white dragon
Outline：Urodela
Family：Caudata Hynomatidae S.Salamander

Vital signs

length：120-150mm
Weight：
lifetime：

Feature

When alive, the back is yellowish brown, and except for the snout, it is scattered with dark brown spots. The spots are clearer in smaller ones; the belly is grayish yellow.

Details

The weak-lipped stream salamander is a tailed amphibian of the family Hynomidae and the genus Hynomidae. It lives in high mountainous areas at an altitude of 3,500 to 3,900 meters, often inhabiting lush vegetation and extremely humid environments on the ground. It is often found in the moist environment of the roots of the medicinal plant, Notopterygium incisum.

This salamander has medicinal value, but its population has decreased due to overexploitation and the decline in the ecological environment quality of its habitat.

Listed in the second level of the "List of National Key Protected Wildlife in China".

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Location

Endemic to China, distributed in Sichuan (Baoxing, Xiaojin).

Lives in high mountainous areas at an altitude of 3500-3900m, in an environment with lush vegetation and extremely humid ground.

Form

The top of the head is flat, the snout is high, the snout tip is wide and round, the lip fold is weak and not obvious, and does not cover the lower lip; the head is longer than the head width, and the back of the head is wider and flatter; the front jaw is large, and the vomerine teeth are in two short rows, with wide spacing between the left and right, forming an "eight" shape. The trunk is round; the base of the tail is cylindrical, gradually flattened backwards, and the tail fin fold is straight and low and thick, only thinner at the back.