Fire salamander

Fire salamander
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Cless:	Amphibia
Order:	Caudata
Faimily:	Salamandridae
Genus:	Salamandra
Species:	S. salamandra
Binomial name
Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Lacerta salamandra Linnaeus, 1758

The fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra) is possibly the best-kent salamander species in Europe. It is black wi yellae spots or stripes tae a varyin degree; some specimens can be nearly completely black while on ithers the yellae is dominant. Shades o reid an orange mey sometimes appear, either replacin or mixin wi the yellae accordin tae subspecies.^[2] Fire salamanders can hae a very lang lifespan; ane specimen lived for mair nor 50 years in Museum Koenig, a German naitural history museum.