Incidental Herping

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Today my Insect Zoology class went bug-hunting (in the pouring rain) in a stream just a bit north of Santa Barbara, and our TA caught a newt! A lovely ~6" Taricha, who was thouroghly appreciated before being released. Apparently they are protected because overall they are rare, even though our streams appear to be crawling with them. I didn't realize we actually had caudates in Southern California, so that just made my day!
 
neat!! lol I wish my part of AZ had some.. well... it does.. they are just elusive as all heck.

Seems like everyone is finding native sals but me! Congrats!
 
FYI. They're not protected, but regulated in CA. But they have lost a lot of habitat in southern CA.

RUSS
 
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  • Katia Del Rio-Tsonis:
    Dear All, I would appreciate some help identifying P. waltl disease and treatment. We received newts from Europe early November and a few maybe 3/70 had what it looked like lesions under the legs- at that time we thought maybe it was the stress of travel- now we think they probably had "red leg syndrome" (see picture). However a few weeks later other newts started to develop skin lesions (picture enclosed). The sender recommended to use sulfamerazine and we have treated them 2x and we are not sure they are all recovering. Does anyone have any experience with P. waltl diseases and could give some input on this? Any input would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
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    sorry I am having a hard time trying to upload the pictures- I have them saved on my hard drive... any suggestions-the prompts here are not allowing for downloads that way as far as I can tell. Thanks
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