<< 4. Some Newtlings never loose their gills or develop lungs. If there isn't a lot of competition for food the tadpoles stay in a neotenous (according to an old tropical fish magazine this means they're adult with some larval charateristics) state - developing arms and legs but still 100% aquatic.>>
They can't strictly speaking be neotenic (as dragonewts are), since that implies they are sexually fertile while appearing more or less larval. At any rate, I doubt that they grow arms and legs and increase in size etc. since this would require rather a lot of water to live in, which they don't generally appear to have. That they might be able to delay metamorphosis depending on the environmental conditions/hormones/their parents doing the right ritual/etc. is however not implausible. OTOH, that dragonewts have a means of preventing the transformation into the sexual stage in order to keep their slaves for longer seems quite believable, provided they have access to a source of young newtlings.
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