Infant Fish Skull Replica measures 3.8 inches. Infant Fish Skull is museum quality polyurethane cast. Made in USA. 2-part skull (separate cranium and jaw). Our precise skull can be used as a teaching tool, museum skull exhibit, home decor skull, or office decor skull.
The Giant Salamander is known to vocalize, making barking, whining, hissing, or crying sounds. Some of these vocalizations bear a striking resemblance to the crying of a young human child, and as such, it is known in the Chinese language as the “infant fish”.
Chinese Giant Salamander or Andrias davidianus is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world.
It is fully aquatic and is endemic to rocky mountain streams and lakes in the Yangtze river basin of central China.
Chinese Giant Salamander or Andrias davidianus has a large head, small eyes, and dark, wrinkly skin. Its flat, broad head has a wide mouth, round, lidless eyes, and a line of paired tubercles that run around its head and throat.
Its color is typically dark brown with a mottled or speckled pattern, but it can also be other brownish tones, dark reddish, or black. Albinos, which are white or orange, have been recorded.
All species of giant salamanders produce a sticky, white skin secretion that repels predators.
Chinese Giant Salamander or Andrias davidianus average adult salamander weighs 55 to 66 lb. and is 3.77 ft. in length. It can reach up to 110 lb. in weight and 5.9 ft. in length, making it the largest amphibian species.