Can you identify this?

Post by **GypsyRR** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:32 pm

Can someone tell me what this is?

I know the photo doesn't give you a good perspective of size, but it's about 6-7 inches long. Has a tail like a eel, hind legs like a frog and a head like a............. catfish? Definite bottom dweller. Can't be a tadpole, right? Aren't those really small? I need to know what this is.

Post by **DJ Downunder** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:05 pm

You're right..It's not a tadpole..

..Isn't it a salamanda or something like that....What do they taste like?

DJ

Post by **GypsyRR** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:21 pm

Fortunately, I did not have to eat this thing - but I bet it tastes like chcken.

Forgot to mention - it lives in water.

Post by **MikeCam** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:46 pm

When I was a wee lad, we called them mudpuppies.

Post by **DSKYZD** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 7:56 pm

That will be a bullfrog soon.

Post by **GypsyRR** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:09 pm

MikeCam wrote:When I was a wee lad, we called them mudpuppies.

I think we have a winner:

Mudpuppy

Thanks - I just needed a "word" headstart to do a google search on it. Creepy weird thing. I'll add it to my list of new things seen for my Arkansas trip report.

Post by **iowabeakster** » Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:27 pm

DSKYZD says,

That will be a bullfrog soon.

+1. I vote bullfrog tadpole.

Ves · Post by **Ves** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:28 am

You found the missing link between fish and mammals.

Arbee · Post by **Arbee** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:03 am

Its an Axylotl

GTR350cc · Post by **GTR350cc** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:20 am

Interesting.

The axylotl (axolotl - aka Mexican Walking Fish) and the mudpuppy are the same creature.

BUT

Bullfrog tadpoles can be 15cm long. (15 cm = 5.9 inches)

Gyps, go back and capture a live sample.

Post by **GypsyRR** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:27 pm

Here's another view of him:

and I have one from the other side (but it ain't pretty

).

Maybe it wasn't a mudpuppy afterall, because it didn't have any front legs and it didn't have the maroon gills.

And just for the fun of it..........
answer this one: which would be harder to 'catch'? A mudpuppy, a bullfrog tadpole, or an Axoloti - or this thing?

NHighCotton · Post by **NHighCotton** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:12 pm

I hope you didn't use a flash,

if you did ....you blinded it.

I'm telling PETA what you did.

Post by **GypsyRR** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:44 pm

No - no flash used.

Here's the other side of him. He doesn't look so healthy on this side.

mad1150 · Post by **mad1150** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:52 pm

Eeeeeeeeewwwwwww!

What's that little goose-necked belly womper been eating?

Post by **Dr. Strangelove** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 2:22 pm

GypsyRR wrote:Can someone tell me what this is?

Y'all are all wrong. It was buried on page 43 of section D of the NY Times.

That is John Edwards before the $400 haircut.

John

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