Japanese Black Salamander

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Japanese Black Salamander
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Hynobiidae
Genus: Hynobius
Species: H. nigrescens
Binomial name
Hynobius nigrescens
Stejneger, 1907

The Japanese Black Salamander (Hynobius nigrescens) is a species of salamander in the Hynobiidae family. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate grassland, swamps, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, irrigated land, and canals and ditches.

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