Danube Crested Newt

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Danube Crested Newt
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Caudata Family: Salamandridae Genus: Triturus Species: T. dobrogicus
Binomial name
Triturus dobrogicus (Kiritzescu, 1903)

The Danube Crested Newt (Triturus dobrogicus) is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Republic of, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Ukraine, and possibly Slovenia. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, temperate grassland, rivers, intermittent rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, urban areas, ponds, and open excavations. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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• Arntzen, J.W., Kuzmin, S., Jehle, R., Denoël, M., Anthony, B., Miaud, C., Babik, W., Vogrin, M., Tarkhnishvili, D., Ishchenko, V., Ananjeva, N., Orlov, N., Tuniyev, B., Cogalniceanu, D., Kovács, T., Kiss, I., Puky, M. & Vörös, J. 2004. Triturus dobrogicus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007.