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OBSERVATION ON GROWTH IN CAPTIVITY OF AMPHIBIAN SPECIES FROM SALAMANDRIDAE FAMILY - SALAMANDRA SALAMANDRA SUB-SPECIES SALAMANDRA (LINNAEUS,1758)


GABRIEL ALIN IOSOB 1, MARIA PRISECARU 2, IONUŢ STOICA 2
1. Doctoral School - „Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Marasesti Street, No 157, Bacau, Romania, e-mail: iosob.gabriel@gmail.com
2. „Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacau, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Marasesti Street, No 157, Bacau, Romania, e-mail: prisecaru_maria@yahoo.com; ionut_stoica23@yahoo.com

Issue:

SCSB, Number 2, Volume XXVII

Section:

Volume 27, No. 2

Abstract:

Finding solutions to cope with the decline and extinction of amphibians is one of the greatest global challenges nowadays. Frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and gimnophiona according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) estimate that at least one third of the known amphibian species are threatened with extinction, a higher rate than birds and mammals put in one place. Major threats to amphibians include habitat loss or degradation and chitridiomycosis, an infectious disease with devastating effect on the decline or mass extinction of amphibian populations worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to provide information for a good growth of Salamandra salamandra subspecies salamandra for the conservation of this species, if we are confronted in Romania with the fungal infection produced by Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, this is a pathogenic fungus what was described in 2013 on the basis of a strain collected from the skin of salamander's skin (S. salamandra). Through these observations we have obtained important data on larval aquarium behavior, larval development, aquarium larvae regeneration, metamorphosis, development of larval metamorphosis and adaptation to captive conditions. The study may contribute to the knowledge and conservation of this species.

Keywords:

Salamandra salamandra, larvae, raising in captivity, metamorphosis.

Code [ID]:

SCSB201802V27S01A0014 [0004899]

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