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  • The first email read, "kueda thinks that your observation of 'something' is California Newt Taricha Torosa."

    David Kroodsma: Your iPhone: A Crowd-Sourced Field Guide to Save the Planet David Kroodsma 2011

  • A number of amphibians live here including the Pacific giant salamanders (Dicamptodon ensatus), red-bellied newts (Taricha rivularis), and tailed frogs (Ascaphus truei).

    Northern California coastal forests 2008

  • Like other newts, Taricha have a terrestrial or eft phase, where their skin is rough and bumpy, and an aquatic phase where their skin is smoother.

    Mendocino County Herptastica Sarah Werning 2008

  • This affable fellow is Taricha rivularis, the red-bellied newt, heading into its aquatic phase.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Sarah Werning 2008

  • Like other newts, Taricha have a terrestrial or eft phase, where their skin is rough and bumpy, and an aquatic phase where their skin is smoother.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Sarah Werning 2008

  • This affable fellow is Taricha rivularis, the red-bellied newt, heading into its aquatic phase.

    Mendocino County Herptastica Sarah Werning 2008

  • The Taricha newts of western North America are particularly toxic; the Rough-skinned Newt Taricha granulosa of the Pacific Northwest produces enough tetrodotoxin to kill an adult human foolish enough to swallow a newt.

    Firedoglake » Newt Gingrich: War Pimp 2006

  • Taricha was distant from Tiberias thirty furlongs: Bethmaus, four furlongs.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • This field photo of a California Newt (Taricha torosa) egg cluster and more are free for educational use

    unknown title 2009

  • The Oregon Newt (Taricha torosa), who may have the most powerful toxin of any vertebrate animal, a powerful Batrachotoxin.

    DC's 2009

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