Anterior ventral glands are present in male cloacae. Posterior ventral glands are present in male cloacae. Kingsbury's glands are present in male cloacae. Dorsal pelvic glands are present in males. Lateral pelvic glands are absent in males.
Glands secreting into the male cloacal orifice are present.
Parental care of eggs has not been reported. Further work is needed to resolve in detail the phylogenetic relationships of species placed in these genera, but future taxonomic revisions are likely for both genera. The genus Salamandrina appears to be the sole extant representative of an ancient lineage that separated from other salamandrid lineages near the time that the lineages leading to the remaining newts and to the true salamanders were formed. Salamandrina is tentatively shown as being closer to the other newts than to the true salamanders, but further work conceivably could reveal that it is closer to the true salamanders. Salamandrina is clearly only a distant relative of the other salamandrid genera, and we can be fairly confident that it does not belong within either the clade containing the remaining newts or the clade containing the true salamanders.