Smooth newt, Lissotriton vulgaris: female 1, male 2, female depositing eggs on an aquatic leaf 3, egg 4, development of the young 5-12. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1823.

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