Pic of <i>Hynobius leechii</i>

[paris]

here is a cute pic i got of my leechii. i hope to post more later. the ones i have are from the north korean peninsula

 

[chris]

Paris, could you post pics of their setup?
Lovely sal, I WANT SOME HYNOBIUS!!!!
Chris

 

[paris]

here are 2 more pics i had on my computer.they dont do them justice-pople say they are plain but in the light you can see all the mottled colours-they look like granite.

and here is another far away pic, if i said they were shy it would be an exaggeration-but when i have the camera out they seem to know

 

[TJ]

What a nice surprise

Thanks for the extra pics. I guess that's moss spread over it's dorsum in the first pic, but it almost looks as if the sal has scales! Paris, I'll look around and see if I can't find some documentation on H.leechii to share with you, though it seems Henk already has you supplied.

Froggy, I can't see why hobbyists would find Hynobius species any more appealing than N. Amerian sals, for example, of which there is such variety. I'm mainly keen on them because they're the ones that inhabit my part of the world. Still, Paris has a point about how beautiful they can be when seen up-close. Anyway, I'm glad to see any interest shown in Hynobiids on this forum

I'd like someday to have a chance to raise some leechi from eggs. The closest I've ever been to one was this grotesque museum display:

(that's H.arisanensis from Taiwan on the left and H.leechi from the Korean Peninsula on the right)


(Message edited by TJ on April 09, 2004)

 

[paris]

no its not moss tim-those are the coastal grooves (if you are talking about the first pic) i think the interest in hynobids arises from their unusual egg sacs and breeding, plus they are more out going than some ambystomids.

 

[TJ]

Really? Then those are some very groovy grooves

Yes, the egg sacs are unusual. What other species have them? I only know of some Taricha with egg sacs. Do your leechi feed from your hand? Also, I'd love to see another shot of those grooves sometime...

(Message edited by TJ on April 09, 2004)

 

[mark]

Nice pics Paris, do you only have one?
I'm with Chris saying that i want some Hynobius to there really cool.
And echoing what Chris said again, could you post set-up pics?

 

[paris]

yeah ill get on the set up pics this weekend (the animals live at the shop). no i have 2 but unfortunately i think they are both females, i have 2 more that are promised to me-hopefully ill have opposite sexes then.i'd love to see those egg sacs in person.

tim, i think hynobid egg sacs are unique in the fact that they allow the larvae to hatch individually yet swim around inside -protected- before the sac releases them some time later. with taricha eggs they arent really a sac, more sort of small jelly mass-they larvae hatch individually and swim away. i was thinking perhaps the siberian salamander had a similar egg case-i dont know there since all i have seen of them is protective fathers hugging (ok well insemenating) egg 'sacs' but they could be egg clusters too.

 

[mark]

Just in case people don't know what the egg sacs look like that Paris and Tim are talking about here is a link to some of Henks Pics on Amphibia web:
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-taxon=Hynobius+leechii&rel-taxon=begins+with

 

[paris]

link no good mark

 

[mark]

Oh well, try this link then scroll down the page and click on Hynobiidae then click H.leechii.
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/lists/index.shtml