Japanese fire-bellied newt
The Japanese fire-bellied newt is a small amphibian with a dark back and a bright red belly. It lives only in Japan, in ponds, streams, forests and grasslands. Its body contains a strong poison that helps protect it from predators.1

Cara mengenalinya
- The skin on its upper body is dark brown, approaching black, and covered in wartlike bumps.1
- The underbelly and underside of the tail are bright red with black spots.1
- Young juveniles have creamy coloured bellies instead of red, though most larger juveniles show some red.1
- Males have flatter, wider tails and more red on the belly than females.1
- Adults are 8 to 15 cm long.1
Sering dikelirukan dengan: The German zoologist Heinrich Boie, who first described it in 1826, said he would have mistaken it for the smooth newt if he had not known it came from Japan.1
Kuasa racun
Kulitnya beracun. Ia berbahaya untuk disentuh, dijilat atau dimakan.
Apa kesan racunnya?
The newt is not venomous: it does not bite or sting with venom. Its body contains high levels of tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin, which is a poison that attacks the nerves. The newt gets most of this poison from its diet.1
Berapa bahaya ia kepada manusia?
Bahaya kepada manusia: SeriusJika seseorang menyentuh atau memakannya, jumpa doktor. Kematian sangat jarang berlaku.Apa yang ia buat apabila takut?
Newts on smaller islands use the unken reflex, where they expose their bright red belly to startle or deter a predator. Newts on the mainland use different antipredator behaviour.1
Jika seseorang menyentuh atau memakannya
- Jika seseorang menyentuhnya: basuh tangan dengan bersih dan jangan sentuh mata atau mulut. Jika kanak-kanak atau haiwan peliharaan menjilat atau memakannya: hubungi pusat racun atau nombor kecemasan.
Sentiasa hubungi nombor kecemasan dahulu (112, 000, 911). Ini panduan pertolongan cemas umum, bukan nasihat perubatan. Asas pertolongan cemas
Kekal selamat
- Jangan sesekali sentuh, tangkap atau usik haiwan liar, walaupun yang kecil, dan walaupun ia nampak tidur atau mati.
- Beri ia ruang. Jika kamu terjumpa, bertenang, undur perlahan-lahan dan biarkan ia pergi.
- Jika kamu menyentuh atau memakannya: jangan gosok mata atau mulut, basuh tangan dan dapatkan bantuan perubatan.
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Berapa besar ia?
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Fakta
The newt's body contains tetrodotoxin, a poison that it mostly takes in from the food it eats.1
Newts can regrow missing body parts, and this ability has been studied by scientists.1
Wild individuals as old as 23 years have been found.1
Males and females both produce peptide pheromones, chemical signals that attract the opposite sex when they are ready to mate.1
The larvae hatch as swimming, gilled young and lose their gills and fins at five to six months, when they become juveniles that live on land.1
Untuk pakar bisa
- Nama saintifik
- Cynops pyrrhogaster
- Kumpulan
- Katak beracun, katak puru & newt
- Keluarga
- Salamandridae2
- Susunan
- Caudata
- Benua-benua
- Asia
- Anak
- Females lay eggs one at a time on underwater objects such as leaves and submerged roots. They can lay up to 40 eggs in one session and 100 to 400 in a breeding season. The eggs hatch after about three weeks.1
- Jangka hayat
- kira-kira 23 tahun1
- Bahaya kepada manusia
- 3 / 5: Serius3
Dari mana fakta datang
- Japanese fire-bellied newt (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Cynops pyrrhogaster (iNaturalist): nama dan pengelasan.
- Venom Wiki: tahap bahaya, saiz biasa dan anggaran kelajuan adalah penilaian kami sendiri. Lihat cara kami mengiranya: Cara kami menilai bahaya.
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