spectacled salamander

English

Noun

spectacled salamander (plural spectacled salamanders)

  1. Either of two species of European salamander of the genus Salamandrina.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 35:
      The study also revealed that the gloriously colourful Italian spectacled salamanders diverged from the rest of the salamandrid family while the dinosaurs still lived.
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