Name: Giant Chinese Salamander - Signed Fine Art Print
SKU: 78605
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Giant Chinese Salamander – Signed Fine Art Print

$19.95 – $27.95

Information about the Giant Chinese Salamander:

Giant Chinese is a critically endangered amphibian native to the mountain streams and lakes in China. They are the largest amphibians in the world, and can reach over 5 feet in length, although adults of that size are exceedingly rare today. Due to habitat loss, pollution and illegal collecting they are considered critically endangered. They are thought of as a “living fossil” as their family dates back some 170 million years. It has very poor eyesight, so it depends mostly on special sensory nodes that run in a line on the body from the head to the tail. They feed on insects, crabs, frogs and fish. Climate change is also thought to have played a role in this animal’s decline in the wild.

The poster is printed on matte, museum-quality paper with Giclée printing quality:
• Paper thickness: 10.3 mil
• Paper weight: 5.6 oz/y² (192 g/m²)
• Opacity: 94%

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Description

Fine art illustration of a Giant Chinese Salamander (Andrias davidianus). The illustration is available in black and white or color.

Artist’s notes:

The Giant Chinese Salamander was completed on 1.30.2015. I saw one of these amazing amphibians many years ago at the California Academy of Sciences. I’m not sure if it’s still around as it moved to Golden Gate Park several years ago. I had wanted to draw this animals for a long time, but was unsure of how the pose should look. I thought a full body side angle might be visually interesting, so I came up with this drawing. Although I think they’re more commonly gray, there are some lighter orange morphs that I thought might make for better contrast with the background.

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