Japanese giant salamander
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Native to Japan, the Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) is one of the largest salamanders in the world. It averages a meter in length and can weigh up to 25 kg.
[edit] History
The Andrias japonicus was first catalogued by Europeans when the resident physician of Dejima island in Nagasaki, Philipp Franz von Siebold captured a giant salamander and shipped it back to Leiden, the Netherlands in the 1820s.
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