#palmate newt

[snototter]

A palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus) in the Netherlands

by Paul Cools

[carsonfatboobs]

Palmate newt

[wild-e-eep]

Met a very yellow newt out for a wander this evening. <3

[frippp]

Little garden critters for a craft market soon! If your in brighton on the 27th of july you can snag yourself one of these! After then im going to start an etsy shop and if there are left overs theyll be on there :)

[alpea]

Sketchbook session!!

[leafyhistory]

Happy Slithers Saturday!

This week in Wales there are newborn Slow Worms everywhere, and the Palmate Newt efts are just getting cuter and cuter!!

[spookyfoxdreamer]

[regicidal-defenestration]

Remember the world is a beautiful place and sometimes you can see a cool amphibian

Remember that the world is a beautiful place and you can always see a cool bug

[arthistoryanimalia]

Happy Newt Year!

Richard Allen (Australia, b.1964) Smooth, Palmate and Great Crested Newts, n.d. (before 2010) Watercolor & bodycolor, 17 x 28.5cm (6¾ x 11¼in)

[bonefall]

I'm really sorry if you already answered but I did look through the whole lexicon and used control+f. Do we have words for Lizards/Newts//Salamanders/Reptiles?

I wanted to see the Clanmew names for 2 OCs Lizardsong and Salamanderclaw. The second being a Skyclan Daylight Warrior!

The word for reptile is "Skeep"! It is a wingless, typically scaled animal without fish "wings". So, it actually includes amphibians as well. This is because there are very few reptiles in the UK; Clan cats don't see why an amphibian is not simply a water-reptile.

So to them, a lizard is a four-legged reptile with a tail. It includes all of the newts that they encounter on a regular basis, even though these are technically amphibians. What are you gonna do, teach the cats cladistics?

Lizard (Generic) = Ssassa Adult newts and lizards, without breeding season adornments. Has 6 species.

Sail (of a fish or a breeding male newt) = Saoss The dorsal fins on top of a fish or a breeding male newt.

Viviparous Lizard (Zootoca vivipara) = Sipssa Eggs are much rarer in this part of the world than you might think. Like its name suggests, the viviparous lizard typically gives live birth, which is likened to the adder. This is the most common lizard in the area, encountered by all Clans.

Sand Lizard (Lacerta agilis) = Hwoossa Named for being seen mostly in WindClan's sandy lowland heath, because this IS an animal that lays eggs. It needs sunny, sandy areas to be able to hatch a brood.

Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) = Fyenssa A contraction of "Flame's Lizard," for the quirk where these newts will often hide in piles of cold, wet wood, only to flee out when a fire is lit. The most common newt to encounter, feel free to translate as "salamander!"

Palmate Newt (Lissotriton helveticus) = Horrssa The "shade newt," so named because this one generally prefers forested, green areas. Its tail is much fatter than the other newts.

Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus) = Gisis What was once the Tribemew word for all lizards now only describes the great crested newt, the largest and most respected of the "lizard" classification. An accomplished hunter with an impressive sail during its breeding season, on both the back and the tail.

Some extra facts about newts and lizards in general...

Scientifically, all newts are salamanders, but not all salamanders are newts. You could translate any one of these words as "salamander."

Through their lives, newts will have terrestrial phases and aquatic phases.

Britain's cold climate and isolation as an island means there are very few reptiles in general; amphibian species outnumber them because it is very wet.

Slowworms are technically a lizard, but Clan cats believe they are a snake.

Clan cats also believe that snakes were not originally reptiles, but worms. There is a story about a cat who hunted them to extinction and then had to recreate them from memory, forgetting that worms don't have scales.

[lys-jeorge]

Newts! Palmate ones I think

[lovecraftian-frog]

These two species of newt are quite hard to distinguish. The Palmate newt (Lissotriton helveticus) and the Smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) are close cousin and look quite the same. To tell them apart, for males in their reproductive forms, you can look at their hind legs ! Palmate newt have ... well ... palms. Huge black palms that smooth newt don't have.

In French, the smooth newt's name can be translated to "punctuated newt" or "spotted newt". You have to look for spots on the throat. With this criteria you can determine that the left newt on the following picture is a Palmate newt and the right one is a Smooth newt.

But some palmate newts have spots on their belly ... so look for spots on the throat !! The next picture shows a spotted Palmate newt. To be sure of it, look at the end of the tail : it is truncated and finishes in a fine filament (the third criteria telling the two species apart apart).

To tell females and younglings apart is even harder ... Quite difficult species to learn about XD

/!\Warning/!\ Before manipulating these animals I had a formation and authorizations so that I won't hurt them. All species of amphibians are protected in France. Unless you have to, do not touch them it is illegal. If you must handle one (to save it from the road for example), make sure that your hands are wet or covered ! Amphibians breath with their skin and need their mucus to do so. If we touch them with dry hands, we will strip them off their mucus, letting them to suffocate.

[wild-e-eep]

Lots of young palmate newts out in the middle of the road, enjoying the wet tarmac. :'(

[the-amazing-mx-menagerie]

Just saw a baby palmate newt, I have never been happier in my life

[leafyhistory]

This week the leaves on the old Rowan have fallen down into the pond. The Palmate Newts seem to have gone off in disgust, but the Slow Worms are sticking around a bit longer, cuddled into the warmest point of the compost heap.

[clavainov]

palmate newt (lissotriton helveticus) 28.05.2024