Newt ID

[ken]

Well, I went to the pet store today to get an extra tank to keep my million or so snails in, and ended up buying two new cfb's and this fellow, who I'm pretty sure is a Paramesotriton of some sort..perhaps hongkongensis. It was labeled as a firebelly.

Here's some quick pics.

He's a big fellow, about 8 inches including tail, dark brown/black with bumpy skin and the firebelly tummy.

 

[ken]

I fibbed, he's 14cm long including tail.

 

[william]

paramensotriton....hongkongensis? deloustali?

 

[ben-lee]

hongkongensis thats my suggestion

 

[benjamin]

Paramesotriton fuzhongensis, is my guess. It looks just like mine. Don't mix it with the firebellies!!!!

(Message edited by ben_tajer on March 05, 2005)

 

[pamela]

You lucky dude! To find newts other than C.o now is quite a boon (for you, maybe not for the newt though.) It is good that you are the one that brought him home. Based on what little I know, he looks like the aggressive kind

P.S. Do you really look like that?

(Message edited by Salmonella on March 05, 2005)

 

[carly]

I'd say Paramesotriton deloustali

 

[ken]

I'll try and post some better pictures today, maybe take him out for some clearer shots.

And yes, I really look like that. Here...I'll put my mask back on.

I thought he was quite the find. He was in with some fire bellied toads and even fiddler crabs. I told the pet store people that he wasn't a chinese firebelly as they thought he was and left the store, but came back and got him five minutes later. I figured $10 Cdn was a good price.

 

[danny]

Ken, you got a great find. Ive boughten two P hongkongensis for $5 each as they were "CO's" according to the pet store staff. Plus Ive gotten one P chinensis for the same

 

[dani]

$10 cdn is what they were charging for c.orientalis? sheesh. i just picked mine up for $2.50 cdn each. then again, i didnt end up with a nice find like that

 

[ken]

Actually the c.o's were $4.99, which seems to be the going rate over here on the Island. They didn't know what this fellow was and just had him listed as a firebelly.

 

[william]

now i look at it is is definitely not deloustali, these animals have an orange line along their bodies and deloustali doesn't also deloustali is really rather rare to find in captivity.