Talk:Fire salamander

Europe only???
I live in upstate Ny - Schoharie county and discovered a salamander, that is best resembled in the pictures and sizes specified here as a Fire salamander ( with slightly different colored spots- greenish). It was almost dead and I was lucky to be able to revive it and send it on to the wild. However I have never seen something like this in NY in all the years of outdoorsmanship. Does Anyone have any information that they can share ???!!!please respond to        bigappleking@aol.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.190.250.228 (talk) 16:44, 6 April 2008 (UTC) [[Media:hgfdtbvcfgd Strike-through text ]]

Why are they nocturnal?
The article says: "Fire Salamanders are active in the evening and the night, but on rainy days they are active in daytime as well." There's nothing more about this... can someone give some sort of exclamation of WHY they're nocturnal?

The subspecies infraimmaculata meanwhile seems to be separated as an own species Salamandra infraimmaculata with the subspecies semenovi belonging to. See here: caudata.org. In this case, there are "only" 12 subspecies now. -- Fice 18:13, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

What the hell
"Some sub species give birth on land"? I have not heard something as scientifically inaccurate as this. If it gives birth in a different method, its a bloody different species. I'm afraid I have to eliminate this, because it cannot be verified whether they do or they don't. Sub-species should have the same method of giving birth.

Sorry, but you are really false about this. Fire salamanders are all viviparous, and normally the give birth to larvae which still have to metamorphe in the water. But some subspecies in drier regions actually give birth to fully metamorphed small salamanders on land. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.46.106.176 (talk) 13:34, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

I have just had a female give birth to six young in the lab. Five fully metamorphosed terrestrial juveniles, one aquatic larva. It is very widely known. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.28.143.61 (talk) 14:42, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

German version
The German version of this is really a fantastic article, in case anybody wants to import some of its content. Tarchon 00:44, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Just curious as to why it says nothing about fire salamanders in the us as i found one not too long ago in NH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.65.255.92 (talk) 14:05, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Identical Page
The page salamandra_salamandra seems to be the same page (It's just the scientific name for fire salamander). Maybe somebody can redirect it? Redirecting the scientific name to this page probably makes more sense since everybody would know the common name whereas few people know the scientific name. People who know the scientific name will also know the common name. Danieljaeger (talk) 17:16, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Distribution
The distribution of Salamandra salamandra is reaching far beyond to europe i.e. Turkey, Israel, Iran, north Africa ... Maybe someone could update the maps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.115.235.2 (talk) 08:23, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

File:Salamandra salamandra MHNT 1.jpg to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Salamandra salamandra MHNT 1.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on September 28, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-09-28. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:28, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Nominae Herpetofaunae Europaeae
Nominae Herpetofaunae Europaeae: why the sudden switch to Latin> A book title?Wetman (talk) 05:55, 28 September 2013 (UTC)

Changes to the Distribution Map
Shouldn't the South Iberian species be excluded from the map as well? It was also given full species status. 82.222.97.8 (talk) 15:04, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

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Link to mythical creature
I think there should be a link at the top for people looking for the mythical creature (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_depictions_of_salamanders) since they are fire elements so someone might search "fire salamander" looking for the mythical creature. Ganondox (talk) 07:17, 24 June 2023 (UTC)