ITALIAN ALPINE NEWT - ICTHYOSAURA ALPESTRIS APUANUS скачать в хорошем качестве

ITALIAN ALPINE NEWT - ICTHYOSAURA ALPESTRIS APUANUS

My word I really must look into the specifics of the scientific name changes?! If the Alpine Newts have been given there own genus then they should have also all been given separate species status! Just like Bombina have, or at least should have, done! Triturus was left as the Latin for the big European Newts like the Marbleds and Cresteds while others got named Lissotriton and Messotriton and by the end of this far too much red wine had been consumed and they came up with ICHTHYOSAURA for Alpine Newts?! LMAO!! Fish Lizard I think but sounds like prehistoric fish every time I read it! Or Dinosaur Fish, lol. Mountainous Dinosaur Fish, no Mountainous Lizard Fish, haha. Ooh sorry I got carried away. Here is a video of the orange belly of the Italian Alpine Newt, lol. Unmistakable smooth textured skin, those little markings on the backs of the females and even out of breeding condition the light brown/tan skin of the males with the little flashes of blue. That spotted throat and smaller size than the others are the things that make them unmistakable to me. Of course in breeding condition the blue of the males far surpasses that of any other Alpine Newt and way beyond the nominate form. The yellow of the crest is not only more vivid and a more golden yellow but also forms a more zig-zag like pattern where most other Alpine Newts have more washed out yellow bars or can even be arranged in a continuous line of 'U's. There are, or at least were, no less than TEN types of Alpine Newts described and there are even neotenic forms found on the balkans. In fact I owned a trio of these many years ago and they were far smaller than the apuanus in size. Whether this type, montenegrinus , were all that size or whether I just had some that matured at a small size I do not know. There are many from the Balkan area I would dearly love to see and of those would be ones like lacusnagri and veluchiensis as these seem to have not only been a huge contrast in colours from their descriptions but my two first ever Alpine Newts I owned were both females and I believe belonged to these two species. To those of you into this kind of thing a description of the two females might be interesting to you. One light tan, like apuanus but lighter, on the back with a deep orange belly. The other was extremely dark, almost black but with dark blue markings and a YELLOW belly and slightly bigger than the one I thought was lacusnagri. I was 12 years old when I owned these two and that was over 30 years ago, lol.