Cynops ensicauda ensicauda egg-laying in the wild

[TJ]

Location: Amami-Oshima Island

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[ester]

cool pictures! Thanks for sharing this. Also great info on local habitat for this newt.

 

[paul]

Great pics Tim!

Thanks very much.
Paul

 

[TJ]

Thanks Ester.

It's not uncommon, by the way, for C. ensicauda to lay their eggs while upside-down

See:

http://www.caudata.org/forum/messages/985/8331.html
(corrected link)

It seems they may lay eggs year-round in the wild as we found gravid females, males with tail sheens, and larvae even in June.

(Message edited by TJ on June 26, 2005)

 

[TJ]

Thanks Paul.

Here she is in full splendor:

 

[ira]

very nice! Looks like a bueatiful spot too. i really should come to japan to go newting sometime.

 

[pamela]

Hey Tim! Again, great pics of animals in action! Just wonderful. I have seen my C.o. female lay eggs in an upside down position also (at first I thought she was dead!).

The areas you visit are beautiful also. I bet you never get tired of finding newts!!! Thanks