Is this a paddletail or a fire belly?

[leo]

A few days ago I bought another three fire belly newts but when I looked at them one of them was a lot lighter in colour than the other ones.It has been aggresive with the other ones and has bitten off one of the fire bellies toes. I have uploaded some pictures of it and i hope you can tell me if it is a paddle tail or not.

(Message edited by TJ on October 01, 2005)

 

[ralf]

Most probably a so called "warty newt" of the species Paramesotriton caudopunctatus. You should keep it separately as species mixing is no option. You might also want to look at the different "firebelly"-caresheets (Family Salamandridae-Genus Cynops) on Caudata Culture as well as the following articles.

http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/Mixing_disasters.shtml

http://www.caudata.org/cc/articles/firebelly.shtml

http://www.caudata.org/cc/species/Paramesotriton/P_caudopunctatus.shtml

 

[william]

you have neither, what you have is a paramensotriton sp. i would post the pics in the paramensotriton section. unfortunatly i don't know what species you have, since the genus is pretty messed up at the moment but i think i'm safe in ruling out laosensis and deloustali.

 

[danny]

Leo, To me its a 'warty newt' heres a link to some great pictures of the warty newt family, maybe you can find out which one it is


http://www.livingunderworld.org/caudata/database/salamandridae/paramesotriton/

 

[leo]

Thanks alot!!,thats really helped me.

(Message edited by half_newt_half_boy on February 24, 2005)

 

[william]

if i was to make an educated guess i would say caudopunctatus.

 

[mike]

As Ralf points out, it is definitely P.caudopunctatus.

 

[chris]

Its a male p. caudopunctatus (it has the spots on the tail = male)
Chris