- Where to see one
- 3 U.S. zoos in our directory hold striped newt, confirmed against each zoo's own animal list.
Conservation status
Not Evaluated
This species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List, so it sits outside the threat scale entirely.
About the striped newt
The striped newt is a small aquatic salamander native to the southeastern United States, found from southern Georgia into central Florida. Adults are yellow-green to dark brown, 5.4 to 10.5 cm long, and carry bright red or orange stripes down the back. It lives in fire-maintained habitats with sandy soils, such as longleaf pine sandhills and scrub, and breeds in ponds from late winter through spring. Young pass through an aquatic larval stage with bushy external gills, then a terrestrial juvenile stage called an eft that lives on land for several years.
Striped Newt facts
- Efts, the terrestrial juveniles, spend several years completely on land.
- Some populations in permanent fishless ponds are neotenic, staying in an aquatic form and often lacking the red stripes.
- Highway mortality is the main threat at the population level, as newts wander onto roads during migration.
- It shares territory with its close relative the eastern newt but has red stripes and unoutlined red spots.
Where to see striped newt in the U.S.
3 zoos across 2 states
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Built from each zoo's own published animal list.
