Fire Salamander (Salamandra salamandra)

Fire Salamanders generally grow to between 7-10 inches in length, but it is not unknown for them to reach 12 inch in some cases.

It is black with yellow spots or stripes to a varying degree; some specimens can be nearly completely black while on others the yellow is dominant. Shades of red and orange may sometimes appear, either replacing or mixing with the yellow according to subspecies. Fire salamanders can have a very long lifespan; one specimen lived for more than 50 years in Museum Koenig, a German natural history museum.