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Taricha torosa
5 to 8 inch long newts with dark brown to reddish brown backs, and orange bellies. 4 fingered toes and knobby skin. Very docile creatures that spend much of their time at the bottom of freshwater rivers. Feed on small fish and insects.
This little fellow, too young for me to sex, was found at the bottom of the slow moving Chetco River by the Southern Oregon coast with a cluster of its comrades. Very calm, as usual.
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