Paramesotriton wulingensis

The Youyang population and Jiangkou population of the new species of Wuling scrofula live in small streams with gentle flow in low mountain broad-leaved forests at an altitude of 800-1200 m, in backwater ponds or clean water beside streams.

During the day, it often hides at the bottom of the stream, and sometimes swims to the surface of the water to breathe air by swinging its tail. When swimming, the limbs of this newt are close to the body, and it moves slowly by swinging its tail. It usually moves around at night to find food, and when foraging, it often lies still at the bottom of the water. When aquatic insects and other small animals pass by its mouth, it quickly opens its mouth to bite them and then slowly swallows them.

In China, it is distributed in Guizhou (Fanjing Mountain, Jiangkou County) and Chongqing (Qinghua Forest Farm, Youyang, Chongqing).

It lives in the backwaters of mountain streams in broad-leaved forests at an altitude of 800-1200m. It lives in water and feeds mostly on aquatic insects.

The skin is relatively rough, with low ridges on the back of the head; glandular ridges on the sides of the head; the squamous part of the frontal scale arch is thinner than the frontal part; there are 3 longitudinal rows of dense warts in the center and both sides of the back, without costal grooves; the neck folds are obvious. The body and tail are olive green, with 3 orange-yellow to yellow-brown longitudinal stripes on the back of the body, and the ventral surface of the body is orange-red.