Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Bosca's newt,Tritão de ventre laranja

Lissotriton boscai

Description:

Bosca's newt (Lissotriton boscai, formerly Triturus boscai), also known as the Iberian newt, is a species of newt in the Salamandridae family. It is a small species, measuring about 9.9 - 10.8 cm in total length

Habitat:

Its natural habitats are temperate forests, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, water storage areas, ponds, and introduced vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss. It is found in Portugal and western Spain.

Notes:

spotted in my backyard

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

6 Comments

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

that is SO COOL! i wish my home was magic like that! sucks living in the city

Thanks Madalena,i love them to,this year we have the backyard full of them,lots of young ones ,we have to go with a lantern to the yard at nigth to not smash them whem walking,because when it rain they all come to feed on the earthworms that trie so escape from the flood soil areas to the less weet areas,it's a liliput world ,just out side the door :-)i'll post more often spottings about them,everybody like them very much

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

love them!

Thanks Jemma and Ashley for you nice words.
Yes Jemma it's earth worms,from wich they feed,not from this big one,but they eat the littles of all the other animals that we have here

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 10 years ago

Seaon's Greetings! Great set of pics. is that a worm next to it?

AshleyT
AshleyT 10 years ago

Great pictures :)

Braga, Portugal

Spotted on Dec 17, 2013
Submitted on Dec 25, 2013

Related Spottings

Lissotriton helveticus Smooth newt Smooth newt Smooth Newt

Nearby Spottings

Cliff Brake Bush lily Black Redstart(Rabiruivo Preto) Magnolia
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team