marbled newt
triturus marmoratus latin

Displaced marbled newts, for example, can only home when stars are visible.

Marbled newts have dark brown or black bodies with irregular patterns of green.

Marbled newts use the stars to orient them on the way to their breeding pools.

Marbled newts are absent from most of the Pyrenees because of dry and unstable conditions.

Marbled newts live throughout most of France, and northern Spain west to the top third of Portugal.

The higher-elevation Mediterranean climates are the preferred habitat of marbled newts, and in the overlap, T. pygmaeus takes the lower elevations.

Triturus (from Triton, son of Poseidon and Greek: ura, meaning tail) is a genus of newt, commonly known as the crested or marbled newts, depending on the species.

In Season 3, episode 8 ("Rear Bus Window") Newton proclaims that he is a member of the genus Triturus, which are crested or marbled newts native to Europe.

The marbled newt (Triturus marmoratus) is a mainly terrestrial newt native to Europe.