T. verrucosus (dark variant)

[TJ]

This is about the darkest full-sized one I've ever seen:

 

[jesper]

That sure is a spiny one.

 

[chris]

My animals are that dark. Great pic - whose is this one?
Chris

 

[TJ]

Hi Chris. Really? I'd like to see pics of them sometime. That one is mine. It followed me home from a shop the other day, bringing to three my stable of verrucosus.

The pic was taken with my new Canon EOS 20D (8.2 megapixels)

 

[henk]

Tim do I read well and have you changed camera's ?? Any peticular reason ?

 

[chris]

I wouldn't mix the dark form with the light form juvie you had, it would be a shame to hybridise them. The only pics of mine I a=have are in the water, and they are lighter aquatically than terrestrially. They have also darkened since these pics were taken.

Sorry for the poor quality - greenier ones are stills from a camcorder, and the other is from a film SLR, which doesn't like tanklight, soI had to use a bulb, hence the orange...Ishould get a good digital.
Chris

 

[TJ]

Are all those juvies? I did say mine was the darkest adult I had seen (in which the knobs are also mostly black), because I have seen dark juvies before, though I don't know whether or not they get lighter as they become adults. Anyway, they're nice!

Juvie? I did raise some T.verrucosus from eggs, but I gave the last juvie away several months ago to somebody who cared for my animals for 2 weeks while I was on holiday. At that time, I wasn't into Tylototriton especially. Now that I've seen the light, I'm aspiring to keep 2-3 of each species

The other two I have are a grey/silver light form. I am indeed keeping the two forms separate

Here's a side shot of the one shown at the top:

 

[chris]

Tim
They are all juveniles in the pics, but they are darker there, and even more so now. When they are on land for a while, and their skin changes texture to suit being terrestrial, their warts turn almost black. I would think he/she will lighten a bit if you persuade it to be aquatic.
Tylototriton are great animals - good luck with them
Chris

 

[frank]

HI Tim, from the first imports of verrucosus in Belgium (around 1996), I have this adult female that is almost completely black.

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[john]

Mine look like Frank's, but deeper tails (are you keeping them terrestrial Frank?). I've found in the "dark" form that the juveniles are brightly coloured but once they mature they darken significantly.

 

[leonardo]

you mean like this John?
I think these specimens cold be dark type...but I still have doubts...

Leo

 

[john]

Looks like a dark juvenile to me.

 

[yago]

At Gersfeld somebody offered some t.verrucosus completly black. One of my friends got 3 adults. I will try to get a pic. I also got 3 adults from another t.verrucosus variant. They look pretty rare. I will post a pic.
Greetings

 

[john]

Hi Yago,

I look forward to seeing them

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Best wishes,

-John

 

[jesper]

Yeah, sounds very interesting Yago.