Hokuriku Salamander

Hokuriku Salamander (Hynobius takedai) is the Hokuriku Salamander, a Japanese endemic species in the family Hynobiidae. Identification should combine body proportions, colour, skin texture and locality because closely related Japanese salamanders can be difficult to separate. Claims are limited to species accounts opened for this batch (Wikipedia, general species account). Field identification should remain cautious wherever full diagnostic measurements or clear photographs are unavailable.

It uses temperate forest, rivers, freshwater marshes, springs and irrigated land; finer behavioural and reproductive details are omitted where the opened account was sparse. Information absent from those species-level sources is omitted rather than transferred from relatives. Japanese occurrence follows the catalogue and opened distribution account, without relying on IUCN conservation material (Wikipedia, general species account; Wildlife of Japan occurrence records).