is an axolotl a water dog?

[rnocera]

"Water dog" is a generic term that people apply to many different animals. It's not a scientific term at all, although as Armand pointed out, axolotl does translate to water dog.

Water dog tends to be colloquial, and pretty much anywhere you go that has an aquatic lizard-like form, people will call it a water dog. It generally means tiger salamander, but you'll also see sirens, hellbenders, and mudpuppies all called water dogs.

The moral of this- Don't buy a "water dog" unless they can give you a species name.

 

[Armand]

"Water dog" is a generic term that people apply to many different animals. It's not a scientific term at all, although as Armand pointed out, axolotl does translate to water dog.

Water dog tends to be colloquial, and pretty much anywhere you go that has an aquatic lizard-like form, people will call it a water dog. It generally means tiger salamander, but you'll also see sirens, hellbenders, and mudpuppies all called water dogs.

The moral of this- Don't buy a "water dog" unless they can give you a species name.

Yeah... pretty much agree with you...

 

[Armand]

Unfornatly from what I know they are criticaly endangered in the wild

Yes as many other spicies unfortunately.

 

[Noto]

Where I grew up any larval salamander is a "water dog", adult streamside salamanders are "spring lizards", adult ambystomatids are "mud puppies", and hellbenders are "snot otters". But in the pet stores "water dogs" are almost always larvae or neotenic adults of one of western tiger salamanders.