Paramesotriton chinensis

[paul]

Hi,

yesterday I had something to buy in a big market for tools, stones, plants, bolts .... (called OBI).
They build up a new part for Terraristik.
There I found this:

Clearly chinensis I think.

Paul

 

[TJ]

Yeah, I can't imagine it being anything else. It even has the tell-tale spots between the joints.

 

[ralf]

I agree. However, the animals seem to be in a pitiful shape and severely malnourished.

 

[mark]

Nice find! I’m sure Paul will have them looking healthy in no time. In the first photo the dorsal stripe almost looks like the beginnings of a crest. Is this ridge simply because the animal is skinny or is there normally a dorsal ridge?

*Must pop to B&Q to see if they’ve started selling caudates*

 

[paul]

Hi,

I did not buy it, but asked to take some photos.
The P.c. was kept together with Cynops pyrrhogaster and Bombina orientalis and was very thin.
Not a good thing to sell newts in those shops. The personnel was very kind, but did not know what they sell there. When I asked to make photos from the Paramesotriton chinensis, they made great eyes and did not understand me.

Paul