Hello there

[aramcheck]

Hello all.

I am Jeremie, French living in exile in Nottingham, UK. Growing up in Dordogne, France I use to keep all the local creepers (marbled, palmate and common newt, grass snake and midwife toad, all illegal to keep, but I did not know that as a young teen). Then life, punk rock and girls got me distracted and I forgot about it.

I have recently got the bug back (after rescuing and nursing back to health a very dehydrated L. vulgaris) and have been keeping CB Salamandra s. terrestris, Triturus marmoratus and Tylototriton verrucosus and now starting with Anuras, I have just acquired a gorgeous female CB Bufo veridis

[Kerry1968]

Welcome!

[Kurt]

Welcome aboard and for what its worth the last one was mispelled, its viridis. Also the genus has changed. Its now Pseudepidalea viridis (Laurenti, 1768) according to Frost. http://research.amnh.org/herpetology...es.php?id=3362

[John]

As I like to point out to Kurt, the jury is still out on that Frost paper. When Amphibiaweb starts drinking the coolaid then it's time to make the change.

[Kurt]

Well, I have already drank a lot of cool aid, I especially enjoyed the Anaxyrus and Ollotis flavors. LOL Pseudepidalea, Rhaebo, and Chanus aren't that bad either.

[aramcheck]

As I like to point out to Kurt, the jury is still out on that Frost paper. When Amphibiaweb starts drinking the coolaid then it's time to make the change.

The veridis/viridis was me not being fully awake at the end of a long day at work, the Bufo/Pseudepidelea was me sitting on the fence and checking what the world is going to do before I commit (same with Mesotriton/Ichtyosaura)

[Kurt]

Ok you quite excused. As you can see not all have accepted the new revisions. So no demerits for you using older genera. Unless you were to call a White's treefrog a Rana caerulea, because that is not a recent revision. I think that name is at least 100 years out of date.

I have heard of Mesotriton, but not Ichtyosaura. Is it new?

[aramcheck]

Ok you quite excused. As you can see not all have accepted the new revisions. So no demerits for you using older genera. Unless you were to call a White's treefrog a Rana caerulea, because that is not a recent revision. I think that name is at least 100 years out of date.

I have heard of Mesotriton, but not Ichtyosaura. Is it new?

Good to know I am escused, i did not want to start with a bad impression. When the Triturus group was split, the Alpine newt was given the Mesotriton genus, at least one author (can't remember who) argued that it should revert to the older Ichtyosaura genus... But so far I have never seen anyone using it.