Product Description
Our Plastic Newt This rubbery plastic toy newt has a rough scaly appearance and is realistic in its red color. Wonderfully proportioned, it is 2 3/4 inches with distinct feet and tail. It will fit nicely into dioramas about lakes, ponds, and marshlands. Our newt may be useful for a school project, as part of an educational display or as a novelty item. Check out our other newt and reptile or amphibian toys and gifts.
A newt is a salamander in the subfamily Pleurodelinae, also called eft during its terrestrial juvenile phase. Unlike other members of the family Salamandridae, newts are semiaquatic, alternating between aquatic and terrestrial habitats over the year, sometimes even staying in the water full-time. Not all aquatic salamanders are considered newts, however. More than 100 known species of newts are found in North America, Europe, North Africa and Asia. Newts metamorphose through three distinct developmental life stages: aquatic larva, terrestrial juvenile (eft), and adult. Adult newts have lizard-like bodies and return to the water every year to breed, otherwise living in humid, cover-rich land habitats. Newts are threatened by habitat loss, fragmentation and pollution. Several species are endangered, and at least one species, the Yunnan lake newt, has gone extinct recently.