🦎Eastern newt
The eastern newt is a common newt of eastern North America. It frequents small lakes, ponds, vernal ponds and streams or nearby wooded areas. The eastern newt produces tetrodotoxin, which makes the species unpalatable to predatory fish and crayfish. It has a lifespan of 12 to 15 years in the wild, and it may grow to 5 in (13 cm) in length. These animals are common aquarium pets, being either collected from the wild or sold commercially. The striking bright orange juvenile stage, which is land-dwelling, is known as a red eft. Some sources blend the general name of the species and that of the red-spotted newt subspecies into the eastern red-spotted newt.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.
- Body mass
- 0 kg
- Body length
- 0.14 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 25 years
Everything we know about the Eastern newt
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
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Body length0.14 mAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan25 yearsrecord 25 years · AmphiBIOAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: acceptable
Record: largest individual on record
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Dietarthropods, vertebratesAmphiBIODetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Eastern newt yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classAmphibia
- ›orderCaudata
- ›familySalamandridae
- ›genusNotophthalmus
- ›speciesNotophthalmus viridescens
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- subfamilyPleurodelinae
- genusNotophthalmus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classAmphibians · Amphibia
- superorderBatrachia
- orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
- superfamilySalamandroidea
- familySalamandridae
- subfamilyPleurodelinae
- genusNotophthalmus
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