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Salamandra atra atra
Alpine Salamander
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0713 0488 (2013-07-11)Copyright © 2013 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Jul 7, 2013
latitude 46.44206 longitude 13.64447
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location
Mt. Mangart's flats, near central snow valley west of the peak of the mountain, East Julian Alps (Posočje, Slovenia)family
Salamandridae
order
Caudata
class Amphibia
notes Slo.: planinski močerad, črni močerad - Habitat: cool, damp alpine meadow, stony pasture, moderately east inclined mountain slope, calcareous ground, humid but sunny place, exposed to direct precipitations, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0-2 deg C, elevation 1.980 m (6.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. - Comment: A fully terrestrial amphibia. Can be found only in the European Alps with isolated populations in the Balkan Dinaric Mountains. It usually occurs at elevations between 900 and 2,100 m and is relatively hard to be spotted because it is active only in bad weather, most often after rain. Usually they are hidden below stones and vegetation. Several strange facts are characteristic for this animal apart of their ovi-viviparous method of reproduction by which it gives birth on land to an average of two fully metamorphosed offspring. This species doesn't need water in the reproduction process. The newly born animals are sometimes almost one-half of size in length on the parents. Their life expectancy is over ten years, and pregnancy last three years (at the elevation of this observation). They spend their full life on a very small territory, in a circle of only a few tens of meters. - Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by 'O1' representing a potentially endangered species. Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroženih rastlinskih in živalskih vrst v rdeči seznam, Uradni list RS, št. 82 (2002), priloga št.6. - Ref.: Fauna Europas, Bestimungslexikon, George Westermann Velag, Braunschweig (1997), translated to Slovenian, Mladinaka Knjiga, Ljubljana (1981), pp261.camera Nikon D700 / Nikkor Micro 105mm/f2.8
contributor's ID # Bot_730/2013_DSC7024 photo category: Animal - Amphibian
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Alpine Salamander, Black Salamander, Alpensalamander, Salamandre Noire, Salamandra Alpina, Alpesalamander, Alpi Salamander, Alpesi Szalamandra, Crni Da*devnjak, Alpenlandsalamander, Salamandra Czarna, Salamander Nair, Salamandra E Zezë, Alppisalamanteri (AW )
Alpine Salamander (photographer)
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