> The Japanese Giant Salamander (JGS) was first catalogued by Europeans in the 1820s when Philipp Franz von Siebold, the resident physician (and enthusiastic naturalist) of Dejima Island in Nagasaki, captured a live salamander and shipped it back to the Netherlands. The species was formally named in Europe in 1836 by Temminck in the monumental collaborative work Fauna Japonica (1833-1851).
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