Amphibia · Urodela
Chinese Giant Salamander
Andrias davidianus
The world's largest living amphibian, reaching lengths up to 1.8 meters and weighing over 50 kg, inhabiting cold, fast-flowing mountain streams and subterranean limestone caves.
- Realm
- Freshwater
- Conservation status
- CRCritically Endangered
This range is an occurrence-derived learning extent, not an official assessment range map. See the methodology page for the complete pipeline. GBIF.org occurrence density (GBIF Maps API v2) · 1° global raster; derived from GBIF per-cell occurrence density, vagrant-trimmed by a cumulative record-count threshold, morphologically closed, small-and-distant components pruned, clipped to a Natural Earth 1:110m realm mask.
Method and versionA sample of openly-licensed occurrence records retained after quality filtering. 61 licence-filtered records across 13 1° cells, retrieved 2026-08-24.
Inspect on GBIFRetained datasets (4)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
- GBIF mediated dataset (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- Royal Ontario Museum Herpetology (ROMH) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, Division of Reptiles & Amphibians (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode)