The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (17971875858)

Title: The American Museum journal

Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)

Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)

Authors: American Museum of Natural History

Subjects: Natural history

Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History

Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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i8o THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL salamanders emerge from the eggs with traces of external gills, which are soon absorbed. The Water Newt, Diemyctylus viridescens Rafinesque (Fig. 14), is of medium size. The body is rather stout; the tail very fiat and fin-like. Dark olive or green above, on which jjg^^_ are scattered numerous small black dots; on each side of the back is a row of small round spots of brilliant vermilion or brick red and bordered with narrow rings of black. The abdomen and lower sides of the body are pale yellow, which

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FIQ. 14. THE WATER NEWT From specimen in Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. meets in abrupt contrast the olive of the upper surface; this pale color is thickly covered with small black dots. On the head the line of meeting of the dark and light colors is slightly below the center of the eye. The tail is very thin and at all times shows traces of fin-like edges, this character being particularly noticeable with the males during the autumn and the spring. Compared with the size of the body the limbs are large and well developed. Male speci- mens may be distinguished from the females by the large and vStocky appearance of the hind limb, the lower joint of which is flattened and very wide, and in appearance quite out of

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