red eft

She explained it was a red eft and would go back to the pond in a year, hatch eggs and die.

Larvae are brown-green in color, and shed their gills when they transform into the gloria red eft.

The strikingly colored (orange) juvenile stage, which is land-dwelling, is often known as the red eft.

The red eft is bright orangish-red in color, with darker red spots outlined in black.

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center - contains pictures of the red eft stage.

Vernal pools hold salamanders and the Red Eft phase of the Eastern Newt.

The peninsula newt (N. v. piaropicola) typically skips the red eft stage and metamorphoses directly into an aquatic adult.

Eastern newts have three stages of life: the aquatic larva or tadpole, the red eft or terrestrial juvenile stage, and the aquatic adult.

The coloration of the Red Salamander has been hypothesized to mimic that of the red eft stage of the eastern newt (Notophythalmus viridescens) which emits a powerful neurotoxin in their skin (Howard & Brodie 1971).

This hypothesis however was heavily criticized due to significant size differences in the organisms and the differences in the species' times of foraging ( i.e. Pseudotriton ruber mainly at night and the red eft mainly during the day) (Brandon & Huheey 1975).