California newt...not!

[TJ]

Anybody care to tell the folks over at Animal Planet that they've misidentified their "newt"?

http://animal.discovery.com/fansites/jeffcorwin/carnival/frog/califnewt.html

Can anybody identify the sal in that pic?

 

[chris]

It's quite amusing that their picture is nothing like their description...
Chris

 

[pin-pin]

That is so not Taricha, although it is a "Califor<font color="ff0000">nian</font> newt." My guess would be E. e. eschscholtzii since it has black eyes and no blotches (and was supposed to be found in California.)}

 

[TJ]

Is E. e. eschscholtzii a "newt"?

 

[pin-pin]

Hey Tim, you are right, it's not even a "newt."

 

[joseph]

Whats the difference between "newt" and salamander? Kinda like rectangle and square?

 

[kaysie]

the "general" difference is "basically" that newts are aquatic and salamanders are terrestrial. i think this is true about 80% of the time. It's really just semantics.

 

[TJ]

Newts are necessarily salamanders but salamanders are not necessarily newts

Also, newts belong to the family Salamandridae.

 

[joseph]

Then what about the "fire salamander"


Don't you just love common names?

 

[TJ]

Well, same goes here, all newts belong to the family Salamandridae but not all Salamandridae are newts