Editing Smooth newt (section)

===Larvae===

The aquatic [[larvae]] are {{cvt|6.5|–|7|mm}} long and yellow-brown with two longitudinal stripes at hatching. They initially have, in addition to their [[gills]], only two balancers at the sides of the head, short appendages for attaching to plants which get [[wiktionary:resorb|resorbed]] within a few days.{{r|Sparreboom2014|p=237}} As in all salamanders, forelegs develop before the hindlegs. The colour becomes a more cryptic, darkly marbled yellow to brown in the growing larvae. Larvae are very slender and similar to the palmate newt. They develop a skin seam from the neck to the pointed tail; the tail is as long as the head and trunk. The larvae grow to {{cvt|3–4.5|cm|in|abbr=on}}, which is also the size of the [[eft]]s (terrestrial juveniles) just after [[metamorphosis]].{{r|Grosse2011|p=188–192}}