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Striped Newt

Striped Newt

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Common Name: Striped Newt

Scientific Name: Notophthalmus perstriatus[1]

Physical Description: The Striped Newt grows up to 4 inches as an adult and is an olive green to brown color. They have a yellow to tan underside with black speckling, with a brighter orange color all around as an eft (juvenile-intermediate stage)[2].  Gills are present in the aquatic-larval stage.

Habitat: Striped Newts have a biphasic lifestyle, or a two-part life cycle. They start as an aquatic larva living in wetlands, and then undergo metamorphosis and move onto land.  They inhabit dry upland habitats, such as sandhills, but can also inhabit scrubs and flatwoods[3]. They prefer burned regions, versus regions encroached by hardwood, thus prescribed burning is important to create their ancestral fire regimes.

Range: Florida & Georgia, USA

Diet: Insects and vegetation

Life Span: 12-15 years in the wild, 17 in human care

Social Structure: Solitary outside of the breeding season

Status:
Near Threatened

Other: The Striped Newt has a complex life cycle. They start as a fully aquatic larva that breathe via their gills. They will then morph into a terrestrial eft (juvenile) or stay aquatic as a paedeomorph, or adult that retains aquatic larval characteristics but can reproduce. As an eft, they are toxic to predators, and thus have bright colorations to warn away potential predators. Paedomorphs will morph into fully terrestrial adults, and lose their gills as ponds dry, while efts will morph from their terrestrial form, into an adult Striped Newt form after time passes.


[1] https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/14872/4467255
[2] https://www.jacksonvillezoo.org/striped-newt-
[3] https://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/amphibians/striped-newt/

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