Tadpole AKA?

Clearly this is a photograph of a frog tadpole, actually about about life size. But is the little feller above the green amphibian that of a frog or a newt? This pressing question made quotidian hopes cogitate, as he ambled around a little pond teeming with young amphibians this Sunday morning.

Newts only go back to water to breed, and that is why, when you see them, they are often swimming about in a panic, wriggling about and rushing up from the shallow depths to frantically gulp air, or hugging new friends enthusiastically.

A newt tadpole is called an eft. Now, does it grow its back legs first like a frog does, or does it push out its handy front limbs first? You guessed it: efts grow their front legs first. Presumably because they don't need to jump about like, er, frogs.

But I have a question for you:

What is the alternative common term for amphibian tadpoles?

Here is a clue:

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