Caudate Central becomes Caudata Culture

Jennifer Macke and myself have finally finished the conversion of Caudate Central into Caudata Culture, the premier resource for newt and salamander care information on the Internet.

http://www.caudata.org/cc

As of today Jennifer is now the official site coordinator and principal editor. Heather Björnebo, the site's creator, has assumed the role of editor and will continue to contribute to the site as her time allows. Nate Nelson, Jennifer and Heather together compromise the editorial team. The new site has several new features but one of the principal ones is the easier contact system. Not only will you be contacting all four of us at once, you'll also get an automatic email that acknowledges your contact and details some helpful links.

Caudate Central and now Caudata Culture depend on you, the users of Caudata.org, for its information. As ever, new species information/caresheets are welcome, as are critiques and comments on current ones as well as any extra information you can offer. Matt (Dellpower on the forum) has already volunteered to update/enhance the setups page (thanks Matt!). If you have kept a species and feel you have a decent level of knowledge with it, please consider writing a species information/care sheet. My personal wishlist for sheets include:<ul>[*]Cynops ensicauda popei <LI>Various Ambystoma species <LI>Necturus <LI>Neurergus (I might try one for N. kaiseri but I haven't bred them) <LI>Pachytriton <LI>Paramesotriton (we could really use one for this group).[/list]That's just my wish list but there are a lot more empty species pages than full ones. So please consider helping out .

I'm happy to say that a caresheet for C. ensicauda is being written, but the others are up for grabs! Don't worry if your English is non-native, or you are a poor writer, we have plenty of editors. We just need the information from experienced people!

I've just put a number of new/revised items up on the new site. They are:

-new articles, including the A. annulatum photo series
-new caresheet for Eurycea bislineata (see Plethodontidae)
-new photos for Pseudobranchus (see Sirenidae)
-revised caresheets for Desmognathus, Notophthalmus, Taricha, and Cynops orientalis

Please write and let us know what you think of the new site! We are open to comments and criticism of any kind!

I'll help with taricha granulosa.

Jen
I would not mind if you wanted to use my pics for the early development of A. maculata on the site. They are posted at http://www.caudata.org/forum/cgi-bin/show.cgi?tpc=985&post=9505#POST9505
Perhaps this year if I can get T. cristatus and T.granulosa (my male has already begun courting) to breed I can get some good close ups of the developing embryos. I can presently do a series with C. orientalis as they are laying already (despite our best efforts to keep them from doing so)
Tara

Tara, I hadn't remembered that set of photos, they're great. I'll add them when I get the chance. (I have a bit of backlog on things to enter on the site.) That would be great if you could take a series for any of the other species you mentioned. Thanks!

http://culture.caudata.org will now also work, for those interested (and Jen - it might help reduce the length of those urls ).