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Salamanders & Newts · Caudata
True salamanders & newts
Family Salamandridae
The largest family of kept caudates — the fire salamander and every newt on this site. Most have toxic skin secretions (samandarin or tetrodotoxin) and love cool conditions; the newts are the semi-aquatic members.
9 kept species on Bognook · 9 with a full care sheet.
- Chinese Fire-Bellied Newt Cynops orientalis The classic beginner newt — small, hardy, with a bright warning belly.
- Fire Salamander Salamandra salamandra The striking black-and-yellow European classic — cool-loving and long-lived.
- Spanish Ribbed Newt Pleurodeles waltl The largest, hardiest, most beginner-proof newt — happily fully aquatic.
- Eastern Newt Notophthalmus viridescens The native newt with a famous land-going "red eft" teenage phase.
- Japanese Fire-Bellied Newt Cynops pyrrhogaster A larger, longer-lived cousin of the Chinese fire-belly — cool water is key.
- Paddletail Newt Pachytriton labiatus A stocky, fully-aquatic newt that needs cool, clean, well-oxygenated water.
- Alpine Newt Ichthyosaura alpestris A cool-climate European newt with a vivid orange belly in breeding season.
- Emperor Newt Tylototriton shanjing A rugged orange-and-black newt that spends much of the year on land.
- Kaiser's Spotted Newt Neurergus kaiseri A striking black-white-and-orange newt — a conservation success now widely captive-bred.
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