What's a Siren?

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My one local pet shop has some newts they call Siren's. They're really cool looking long newts with only front legs & gills like a larval newt or Axie. They're probably 5 or 6 inches long & brown. I'm just wondering exactly what they are? They want like $16 for them.

Thanks!
 
Cool, thanks! That's them.
 
Around the Fall of last year there was an influx of Greater Sirens (Siren lacertina) in the herp market. Some people on the forum have Lesser Sirens (Siren intermedia) as well, (myself included.)

However, I was under the impression that Pseudobranchus are extremely rare in the pet market.
 
I wasn't saying that they're related to olms, just that they're both long, slender salamanders that remain neotonic throughout their adult life.
 
Juvenile S. intermedia and S. lacertina are very difficult to tell apart so I would not want to count on the fact that what looks to be intermedia really is intermedia.

Ed
 
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