Rough-skinned newt
The rough-skinned newt is a small, stocky amphibian from the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its skin gives off one of the strongest toxins of any newt, so it is a creature to admire from a distance and never handle. Its toxin is also linked to a famous fight between newts and garter snakes.1

Uko wayimenya
- Stocky body with a rounded snout.1
- Top ranges from light brown to olive or brownish-black.1
- Underside, including the head, legs and tail, is orange to yellow.1
- Skin is granular, but males are smooth-skinned during the breeding season.1
- Adults are 11 to 18 cm long overall, including the tail.1
Ikunze kwitiranywa na: The California newt (Taricha torosa) looks similar. The rough-skinned newt has smaller eyes, yellow irises, V-shaped tooth patterns and uniformly dark eyelids. During breeding season, males have large swollen vent lobes and cornified toe pads, which separate them from females.1
Imbaraga z'uburozi
Uruhu rwayo rufite uburozi. Ni bibi kuyikoraho, kuyirigata cyangwa kuyirya.
Uburozi bwayo bukora iki?
This animal is poisonous rather than venomous, so it does not bite or sting. Its skin produces tetrodotoxin (TTX), a neurotoxin that attacks the nerves. It blocks the sodium channels that nerves need to send signals. This can cause paralysis and death by asphyxiation, which means the person cannot breathe.1
Iteje akaga kangana iki ku bantu?
Akaga ku bantu: Iteje akaga cyaneIshobora kwica umuntu utavuwe.The toxin is mainly dangerous if the newt is eaten. Some people have had skin irritation after handling the newt, especially if they touch their eyes without washing their hands first. In 1979, a 29-year-old man from Oregon died after eating one. Some newts make enough toxin to kill several adult humans.1
Ikora iki iyo ifite ubwoba?
It gives off an acrid smell that warns animals to stay away.1
Niba hari uwayikozeho cyangwa uwayiriye
- Niba hari uwakoze ku yindi: karaba intoki neza kandi ntukore ku maso cyangwa ku munwa. Niba umwana cyangwa itungo ryayirigase cyangwa ryayiriye: hamagara ikigo gishinzwe uburozi cyangwa nimero y'ubutabazi.
Buri gihe banza uhamagare nimero y'ubutabazi (112, 000, 911). Izi ni inama rusange z'ubutabazi bw'ibanze, si inama za muganga. Ibanze by'ubutabazi bw'ibanze
Irinde akaga
- Ntuzigere ukora, ufata cyangwa ushotora inyamaswa yo mu gasozi, nubwo yaba ntoya, kandi nubwo yasa n'isinziriye cyangwa yapfuye.
- Yihe umwanya. Niba uhuye n'imwe, tuza, usubire inyuma buhoro buhoro kandi uyireke yigendere.
- Niba wayikozeho cyangwa wayiriye: ntukube amaso cyangwa umunwa, karaba intoki kandi ushake ubufasha bwa muganga.
Ntigushakisha ngo ikugirire nabi. Uburozi bwayo buriho gusa kugira ngo hatagira ikiyirya. Ibindi ku kwirinda
Ingana gute?
Ireshya ite?
ireshya n'ibice 6 by'ibikinisho byo kubaka biri ku murongoRough-skinned newt ingana ite ugereranyije NAWE?
Ni imibare gusa ikorerwa muri mudasobwa yawe. Nta kintu kibikwa cyangwa cyoherezwa ahandi.
Yihuta gute?
Ibintu by'ukuri
Some common garter snakes can eat rough-skinned newts and survive. They are the only known animals today able to do this.1
A garter snake tests a newt's toxin level by partly swallowing it, then either swallows it fully or lets it go.1
Newts can detect the chemical signature of a snake that has digested one of their kind, and they move away from it.1
The toxin is made by the newt's skin microbiome, meaning the bacteria living on its skin.1
The newt and the garter snake are an example of an evolutionary arms race. Each change in one species drives change in the other.1
The toxin also appears in pufferfish and other marine animals, which share the same nerve-blocking effect.1
Ku bahanga mu by'ubumara
- Izina rya siyansi
- Taricha granulosa
- Itsinda
- Ibikeri by'uburozi, ibikeri binini na newt
- Umuryango
- Salamandridae2
- Itsinda rinini (order)
- Caudata
- Imigabane
- Amerika y'Amajyaruguru
- Abana bato
- The eggs contain tetrodotoxin, which helps protect the offspring from predators such as the common garter snake.1
- Akaga ku bantu
- 4 / 5: Iteje akaga cyane3
Aho ibintu bivugwa bituruka
- Rough-skinned newt (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Taricha granulosa (iNaturalist): amazina n'ibyiciro.
- Venom Wiki: urwego rw'akaga, ingano isanzwe n'ikigereranyo cy'umuvuduko ni ibyacu bwite. Reba uko tubibara: Uko tugena akaga.
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Uburozi mu ruhu rwayo