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[salad dodger]

i bought some red spotted salamanders recently but am having some difficulty finding any info on them
the nearest info i can find is the red spotted newt .
have i indeed purchased newts & not salamanders ?

 

[gcollin]

I would love to help but I am no use here...sorry.


-Collin.

 

[cichlidjedi]

Hi Salad,

Your newts look like Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens. There are 4 subspecies and based on the red dots they are viridesens. I have a group of six and they are a nice newt. Mine eat live blackworms, frozen bloodworms, frozen mysis and live phoenix worms. Please read species info from main site http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Notophthalmus/N_viridescens.shtml
Good luck with your group of US species of newts.

Chuck

 

[damien]

Definately Notophthalmun viridiscens viridiscens..
Nice looking species

 

[Kaysie]

And just for clarification, all newts ARE salamanders. They all belong to the order Caudata (or Urodeles). Newts are just a specific subset of salamanders.