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daveg Member Joined: 02 Jul 2006 No. of posts: 24  View other posts by daveg |
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 Folks Can anyone please identify the newts in the pictures. They were taken by a friend of a friend at his garden in Pen Selwood Somerset. They were both convinced that these little creatures were lizards so I offered to post the pictures here a clear up the debate. My guess is that they are palmates and the one(s) with the orange dorsal stripes are about inch 1/2 long are late stage efts and the more uniform with spots is a female. I was told the ventrals were uniform orangy coloured. Thanks for any words of wisdom Dave
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tim hamlett Senior Member Joined: 17 Dec 2006 No. of posts: 572  View other posts by tim hamlett |
Posted: 10 Oct 2008 hi as you say, the dorsal stripe starting low and continuing uniformly to the tip of the tail indicates that the eft is a palmate. the colour in the second pic is a bit odd but it could looks more like a male palmate than anything else tim |
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daveg Member Joined: 02 Jul 2006 No. of posts: 24 View other posts by daveg |
Posted: 18 Oct 2008 Thanks Tim, sorry I didnt see you reply as had to travel to Russia last week. A bit too cold for any herps here now. In July I went to a place called Gubkinsky about 300 km south of the artic circle, thought i saw a lizard but it scuttled away too quickly to identify! |
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. happy to be corrected though
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