Crocodile newts

[Sean90]

Hey im a newbie, but I have been doing a lot of studies into this species. Just wondering how many keeper would be interested at looking at a stud book for this species

 

[FrogEyes]

Depending on what species you mean, studbooks already exist.

 

[FrogEyes]

For Europe:
European Studbook Foundation - LATEST NEWS
For USA:
http://library.sandiegozoo.org/studbooks/reptiles/emperornewt2002.pdf

 

[TylototritonGuy]

Frogeyes is right, there are 8 individual Sub-species of Tylototriton (not including the Possible New species that Frogeyes has looked into himself) and I'm sure there are a few stud books that have been done already for the entire Genus.

 

[FrogEyes]

There are 11 named species at the moment:

T.(T.) kweichowensis
T.(T.) shanjing
T.(T.) taliangensis
T.(T.) verrucosus
T.(Y.) asperrimus
T.(Y.) broadoridgus
T.(Y.) dabienicus
T.(Y.) hainanensis
T.(Y.) notialis
T.(Y.) vietnamensis
T.(Y.) wenxianensis

One study has placed two of these as synonyms of T.(Y.) asperrimus, but all studies agree that there's a fair amount of diversity in the genus, and most recognize all of the above species plus a small stack of unnamed species. Relatively few are in captivity, but this is likely complicated by lots of confusion between pet trade Yaotriton of unknown origin.

 

[Sean90]

Thanks newbie in the newt world

 

[TylototritonGuy]

There are 11 named species at the moment:

T.(T.) kweichowensis
T.(T.) shanjing
T.(T.) taliangensis
T.(T.) verrucosus
T.(Y.) asperrimus
T.(Y.) broadoridgus
T.(Y.) dabienicus
T.(Y.) hainanensis
T.(Y.) notialis
T.(Y.) vietnamensis
T.(Y.) wenxianensis

One study has placed two of these as synonyms of T.(Y.) asperrimus, but all studies agree that there's a fair amount of diversity in the genus, and most recognize all of the above species plus a small stack of unnamed species. Relatively few are in captivity, but this is likely complicated by lots of confusion between pet trade Yaotriton of unknown origin.

FrogEyes could you get hold of picture for the T.broadoridgus and T.dabienicus please? Just particularly interested in seeing what these two look like! lol

 

[FrogEyes]

The descriptions of both species are available for free, and I posted links to those in the relevant threads. God I hate the name "broadoridgus". There's a reason an extinct language, and not English, was chosen for use in scientific names :S

 

[Azhael]

It is one hideous name. I don´t want to live in a world where scientific names are not in greek and latin...you don´t touch that...why can´t i ever have something pretty?

The thing that hurts me the most is the "-us" at the end....what´s the point? It´s just for the sake of pure evil.