axolotl

/ak-suh-lot-l/US // ˈæk səˌlɒt l //UK // (ˈæksəˌlɒtəl) //

斧头鱼,斧头蜥,斧头蛇,斧头龙

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of several salamanders of the genus Ambystoma that inhabit lakes and ponds of Mexico and remain in the larval stage as sexually mature adults.

Also in the axolotl, where there are douple pits, placed side by side, not only superiorly but at the same time inferiorly.
When found in the terrestrial form, the Axolotl is called Amblystoma tigrinum, and is classed among the salamanders.
The Axolotl rarely or never undergoes metamorphosis in its native country, 565.
Postscript; dryness of the air the probable cause of the assumed reversion of the Amblystoma to the Axolotl, 613.
What first made this view appear to me erroneous, was the appearance of the living Amblystomas bred from my Axolotl larv.