Hynobius lichenatus
Rare visitor: recorded only occasionally in this country
Tōhoku Salamander (Hynobius lichenatus) is the Tohoku Salamander, a Japanese endemic member of the Asiatic salamander 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.
Its documented natural habitats are temperate forest and rivers; unsupported diet and reproductive details are omitted. 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). This wording keeps limitations in the available species evidence explicit for readers and future review.