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Taricha granulosa (Rough skinned newt)🦎

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SpeciesCaudataSalamandridae
Amphibians

🦎Rough-skinned newt

Taricha granulosa (Skilton, 1849)

The rough-skinned newt or roughskin newt is a North American newt known for the strong toxin exuded from its skin.

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≈ 1/5,040th of your weight
Also called
Roughskin Newt
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2022.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.01 kg
Body length
0.22 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Rough-skinned newt

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.01 kg
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data quality: low

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

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  • 0.01 kgAmphiBIOv1 (Oliveira et al. 2017)
Body length
0.22 m
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
12 yearsmaximum recorded
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
23 days
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data quality: low

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
arthropods
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Source: AmphiBIO · v1 (Oliveira et al. 2017) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0 Laverage
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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 Rough-skinned newt yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAmphibia
  4. ›orderCaudata
  5. ›familySalamandridae
  6. ›genusTaricha
  7. ›speciesTaricha granulosa
Full lineage
  1. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  2. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  3. subfamilyPleurodelinae
  4. genusTaricha
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classAmphibians · Amphibia
  9. superorderBatrachia
  10. orderSalamanders & newts · Caudata
  11. superfamilySalamandroidea
  12. familySalamandridae
  13. subfamilyPleurodelinae
  14. genusTaricha
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Pacyfotryton szorstki (pl), นิวต์ผิวขรุขระ (th), Taricha granulosa (pt), Rauhäutiger Gelbbauchmolch (de), Желтобрюхий тритон (ru), Taricha granulosa (fr) … and 17 more languages
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