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Eastern Newt
Notophthalmus viridescens
Eastern, or "Red-Spotted" Newts are aquatic as adults and may be familiar as they wetre formerly sold in pet stores across
the state. Adults are olive colored with black-edged red spots, yellow bellies, and flattened tails. As juviniles they are
terestrial, bright orange (bearing the same spots as adults), and referred to as red efts. They are found across New York
State. They are vulnerable to habitat fragmentation and fish introductions.
Juvinile efts have powerful toxic skin secretions and can be found wandering around the forest floor or under logs. Efts
remain on land for 2-5 years before metamorphisizing a second time into aquatic adults. Adults feed on mollusks, aquatic arthropods, and
eggs.
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Specimen # 86
Date: July 27, 2009
Location: Pawling, NY
Notes: Walking around the
forest floor on a humid day.
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Specimen # 87
Date: July 27, 2009
Location: Pawling, NY
Notes: Boldly walking around
the forest floor. LOTS or mosquitoes out.
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Specimen # 88
Date: July 27, 2009
Location: Pawling, NY
Notes: Boldly walking around
the forest floor.
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Specimen # 117
Date: August 12, 2010
Location: Cornwall, NY
Notes: Under a log, with company.
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Specimen # 161
Date: April 18, 2011
Location: Putnam Valley,
NY
Notes: Under a rock.
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Specimen # 163
Date: April 18, 2011
Location: Putnam Valley,
NY
Notes: In a lake full of newts.
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Specimen # 222
Date: April 2, 2012
Location: Stony Point,
NY
Notes:
Male in Doodletown Lake.
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Specimen # 133
Date: September 11, 2010
Location: Wurtsboro,
NY
Notes: Near water under a log
with 2 other small individuals.
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Specimen # 134
Date: September 11, 2010
Location: Wurtsboro,
NY
Notes: One of many efts
in the area.
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Specimen # 79
Date: June 22, 2009
Location: Yorktown, NY
Notes: At the base of Turkey
Mountian. Small, found under stick/leaf litter.
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Specimen # 109
Date: August 3, 2010
Location: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Notes: Small, under log.
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Specimen # 140
Date: October 11, 2010
Location: Chappaqua, NY
Notes: Bright belly, under
large log.
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