Various birds and vipers are a threat to Lanza's alpine salamander.

Unlike other salamanders whose larvae are developed in water, the alpine salamander is a fully terrestrial species.

The high-altitude Alpine salamanders have adapted to living above the snow line by giving birth to fully developed young rather than laying eggs.

Due to its black colour, it is similar to the other alpine salamander, Salamandra atra atra.

Samandarines have been isolated in the toxic principles of the fire salamander and alpine salamanders (Salamandra atra).

The alpine salamander and Lanza's fire salamander give birth to live young, without a tadpole stage, but the other species lay their eggs in water.

Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra)

Lanza's alpine salamander (Salamandra lanzai)

The Western Alps are inhabited by a similar species Lanza's alpine salamander (Salamandra lanzai) in only one small area.

He coerced ovoviviparous fire salamanders to become viviparous, and viviparous alpine salamanders to become ovoviviparous.

Among the amphibians are the alpine salamander (southernmost habitat), fire salamander, yellow-bellied toad and fire bellied toad .

S. a. aurorae, the golden alpine salamander, is classified as being Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List 2002.

Some caecilians, the Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra) and some of the African live-bearing toads (Nectophrynoides spp.)

Genetic analysis suggests thet Corsican fire salamander (Salamandra corsica) is the closest related species, and the black-yellow coloration is an ancestral feature of alpine salamanders.

The Viviparous lizard inhabits rocky terrain, as does the black Alpine Salamander known locally as the Bergmandl, which can be seen after rain showers as one is climbing.

He also notes medicinal and poisonous properties, which are founded in fact on some level, since many species of salamander, including fire salamanders and Alpine salamanders, excrete toxic, physiologically active substances.

Lanza's alpine salamander or the large alpine salamander (Salamandra lanzai) is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family, found in France and Italy.

The astonishing reproductive ability of vivipary is well known from the fire salamander's northwest Spanish subspecies, S. s. bernardezi (Asturian fire salamander) and the alpine salamander (S. atra) from the central and east Alps.

All of these traits, even down to the star-like markings, are consistent with the golden Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra aurorae) of Europe that has golden or yellow spots or blotches on its back and some similarly marked subspecies of the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra).

Due to its black colour, it is similar to the other alpine salamander, Salamandra atra atra.

All of these traits, even down to the star-like markings, are consistent with the golden Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra aurorae) of Europe that has golden or yellow spots or blotches on its back and some similarly marked subspecies of the fire salamander (Salamandra salamandra).