Axolotl
Ambystoma mexicanum
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Ambystoma mexicanum
- Class
- Amphibian
- Order
- Urodela
- Family
- Ambystomatidae
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By night
- Continent
- North America
- Habitat
- Rivers and lakes
- Conservation status
- Critically endangered
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- It can regrow lost limbs and even parts of its heart and spinal cord.
- It stays in a youthful form with feathery external gills for its whole life.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q22718 · All animals · All entries