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Opal Creek Wilderness, Oregon (USA)
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Salamandra atra ssp. atraAlpine SalamanderSlo.: planinski moerad, rni moeradDat.: July 7. 2013Lat.: 46.44206 Long.: 13.64447Code: Bot_730/2013_DSC7024Habitat: cool, damp alpine meadow, stony pasture, moderately east inclined mountain slope, calcareous ground, humid but sunny place, exposed to direct precipitations, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0-2 deg C, elevation 1.980 m (6.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Place: Mt. Mangart's flats, near central snow valley west of the peak of the mountain, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: A fully terrestrial amphibia. Can be found only in the European Alps with isolated populations in the Balkan Dinaric Mountains. It usually occurs at elevations between 900 and 2,100 m and is relatively hard to be spotted because it is active only in bad weather, most often after rain. Usually they are hidden below stones and vegetation. Several strange facts are characteristic for this animal apart of their ovi-viviparous method of reproduction by which it gives birth on land to an average of two fully metamorphosed offspring. This species doesn't need water in the reproduction process. The newly born animals are sometimes almost one-half of size in length on the parents. Their life expectancy is over ten years, and pregnancy lasts three years (at the elevation of this observation). They spend their full life on a very small territory, in a circle of only a few tens of meters. Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "O1" representing a potentially endangered species. Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82 (2002), priloga t.6.Ref.:(1) Fauna Europas, Bestimmungslexikon, George Westermann Velag, Brounschweig (1997), translated to Slovenian, Mladinaka Knjiga, Ljubljana (1981), pp261.
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Adult Male
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Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan
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Languedoc-Roussillon, France
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The bright orange color of California Newts (Taricha torosa) is a warning sign. These newts contain a neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin that helps protect them against predators like garter snakes. It's the same toxin that is found in pufferfish.
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Sallent de Gllego: Aragn (Espaa)El Pirineo.Phylum: ChordataSubphylum: VertebrataInfraphylum: GnathostomataClassis: AmphibiaSubclassis: LissamphibiaOrdo: CaudataSubordo: SalamandroideiFamilia: SalamandridaeGenus: Calotriton
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Ohio, United States
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Just out of hibernation and beginning to grow his breeding crest.Cradley, Malvern, Worcs. SO7347
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After turning over logs in a damp forest area, I see that the efts have returned to the surface!
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Germany, Hessen, Lohrhaupten
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Salamandra atra ssp. atraAlpine SalamanderSlo.: planinski moerad, rni moeradDat.: July 7. 2013Lat.: 46.44206 Long.: 13.64447Code: Bot_730/2013_DSC7024Habitat: cool, damp alpine meadow, stony pasture, moderately east inclined mountain slope, calcareous ground, humid but sunny place, exposed to direct precipitations, average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0-2 deg C, elevation 1.980 m (6.500 feet), alpine phytogeographical region. Place: Mt. Mangart's flats, near central snow valley west of the peak of the mountain, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC Comment: A fully terrestrial amphibia. Can be found only in the European Alps with isolated populations in the Balkan Dinaric Mountains. It usually occurs at elevations between 900 and 2,100 m and is relatively hard to be spotted because it is active only in bad weather, most often after rain. Usually they are hidden below stones and vegetation. Several strange facts are characteristic for this animal apart of their ovi-viviparous method of reproduction by which it gives birth on land to an average of two fully metamorphosed offspring. This species doesn't need water in the reproduction process. The newly born animals are sometimes almost one-half of size in length on the parents. Their life expectancy is over ten years, and pregnancy last three years (at the elevation of this observation). They spend their full life on a very small territory, in a circle of only a few tens of meters. Enlisted in the Slovene Red List of rare and endangered species, marked by "O1" representing a potentially endangered species. Pravilnik o uvrstitvi ogroenih rastlinskih in ivalskih vrst v rdei seznam, Uradni list RS, t. 82 (2002), priloga t.6.Ref.:(1) Fauna Europas, Bestimmungslexikon, George Westermann Velag, Brounschweig (1997), translated to Slovenian, Mladinaka Knjiga, Ljubljana (1981), pp261.
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Egg
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Kunigami, Okinawa, Japan
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Briantspuddle, England, United Kingdom
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Each year beginning in December, California Newts (Taricha torosa) leave their land dwellings and make a slow migration to ponds for mating season. If you see them on the trails, make sure to give them plenty of space.
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Sallent de Gllego: Aragn (Espaa)El Pirineo.Phylum: ChordataSubphylum: VertebrataInfraphylum: GnathostomataClassis: AmphibiaSubclassis: LissamphibiaOrdo: CaudataSubordo: SalamandroideiFamilia: SalamandridaeGenus: Calotriton
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