Anderson's crocodile newt
Amazing fact
Anderson's crocodile newt is a different species from the newts on Amami Oshima and Tokunoshima.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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Anderson's crocodile newt is a different species from the newts on Amami Oshima and Tokunoshima.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Anderson's crocodile newt
- Scientific name
- Echinotriton andersoni
- Japanese name
- オキナワイボイモリ
- Group
- Amphibians and reptiles
- Class
- Amphibia
- Order
- Caudata
- Family
- Salamandridae
- Genus
- Echinotriton
The Okinawa newts were recognized as a species separate from those on Amami-Oshima and Tokunoshima, and came to be called Okinawa-ibo-imori in Japanese.
A newt found nowhere in the world except Okinawa Prefecture.
Compared with the sword-tailed newt, which also lives in Okinawa, it is better suited to life on land.
Basic data
- Range
- Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
- Conservation status in Japan
- Endangered (EN)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)
Where the Anderson's crocodile newt has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- オキナワイボイモリ
- 简体中文
- 琉球棘螈
- 繁體中文
- 琉球棘螈
- 한국어
- 사마귀영원
- Español
- Tritón cocodrilo de Anderson
- Français
- Echinotriton d'Anderson
- Deutsch
- Japanischer Krokodilmolch
- العربية
- نيوط أندرسون التمساحي
- Tiếng Việt
- Kỳ giông Anderson
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — リュウキュウヤマガメ・オキナワイボイモリ展示のお知らせChecked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, 5th Red List (2026)Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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