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Japanese singing frog
Blacked salamander
Nagare-hikigaeru
Mamushi / Japanese copperhead
Forest green treefrog
photo:Blacked salamander
Blacked salamander
Scientific name:hynobius nigrescens@Family:Hynobiidae
During the breeding season this salamander lays in a shallow pond a white egg mass like an Akebi (a kind of flower) seed.

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