Wikipedia:Picture peer review/Eastern newt eft

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[edit] Eastern newt eft

I'm not sure what to use as a caption yet. Created by Cotinis

• Nominated by: Cynops3 03:32, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Comments:

• I would support this image on Featured Picture Candidates, but it might have some trouble getting through the process. It is just barely large enough, the tail is slightly out of focus (looks like a depth of field issue), the blur on out-of-focus twigs in the background looks strangely linear (like there is some kind of image artifact going on), and there are white spots on the skin of the eft. I'm pretty sure that some of the white spots are just dirt, but one prominent very bright spot (top of the neck) looks like an artifact from a reflection from the (damp?) skin. I still like it! To anyone who nominates it; you'll need to go through the extensive "what links here" list on the bottom, and link all of the articles that have the image supplementing the text, but omit links to all of the articles that have the image because they are Salamandridae stubs. My suggestion for a caption:

A terrestrial subadult Eastern newt or red eft, Notophthalmus viridescens. Salamanders of the family Salamandridae with aquatic adult stages are called newts. Some newts, including the Eastern newt, have a juvenile terrestrial stage called the eft. The red eft has aposematic coloring to warn predators of its toxic skin. Enuja (talk) 04:18, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Seconder:

Nominated at FPC as Eastern newt by Cynops3 on 3 October 2007. --jjron 15:45, 6 October 2007 (UTC)