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Some pics of the "green" variety of T. pygmaeus, that can be found in the mountains of central Spain. The photographs where taken this spring...
 

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They are really nice Ruben. Do you find entire populations of "green" newts or are they mixed in with the regular black dorsal spotted animals?
 
Hi Mark...

Whell, in the most isolated populations that I know there are entire populations of (more or less) green newts. Although these individuals of the photographs were specially green, the populations use to have just only some small black dot on a green background, I would say about 96/99 % of green maybe.
 
Thank you for these wonderful photos Rubén. It's these kind of photo's that make the Caudata.org forum even more interesting.

Is there any information about why these isolated populations seem to have more green? Could this be food or environment related?
 
Very beautiful animals and photos. These are the kind of pics I would love to see in the 2008 calender.
 
Simply incredible! Always though the greener the better but these animals are unbelivable. How do you do it? how do you find these things?? hehe
Anyway thanx for photos, a real pleasure to the sight :)
 
They look magnificent. Shows just how variable newts can be.
They seem to be quite well fed too.
Are female a similar shade of green and with almost no black spots?
 
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