Central Newt (Notophthalmus viridens louisianensis)
Description: Aquatic adults have smooth skin with orange and black spots on a brownish-orange to light olive-colored background. The ventral side is yellowish with many black flecks. Terrestrial adults are dark olive to brown above with a whitish ventral side speckled with black flecks. The skin of terrestrial adults is textured like medium sandpaper. The eft, the terrestrial juvenile phase, is primarily a plain brown-orange color with tiny black flecks throughout. Newts live in well-vegetated woodland ponds, roadside ditches, and more permanent riparian wetlands. They eat small earthworms, snails, aquatic insects, and other amphibian larvae.
Family: Salamandridae
Size: 2.5 to 4 in.
Status: Common
ARMI National Atlas for Amphibian Distributions
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/armiatlas/s...ecordID=173615
SOURCES:
United States Amphibian Atlas Database
SOURCE:
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/
