Chinese Fire-bellied Newt Cynops/Hypselotriton orientalis

Chinese Fire-bellied Newt
Chinese Fire-bellied Newt
The Chinese Fire-bellied Newt is native to well-vegetated forest streams, ditches and marshes in east-central China. With its black body and limbs with a bright orange (biofluoresent) black-spotted underside, it looks similar to the related Japanese Fire-bellied Newt. It secretes mildly poisonous toxins through its skin.