Italian Crested Newt
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 A male Crested Newt in the Netherlands
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| Triturus carnifex Laurenti, 1768 |
The Italian Crested Newt (Triturus carnifex) is a species of salamander in the Salamandridae family. It is found in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovenia, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, temperate shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, swamps, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marches, pastureland, plantations , rural gardens, water storage areas, ponds, and open excavations. It is threatened by habitat loss.
[edit] References
- Arntzen, J.W., Deno�l, M., Jehle, R., Andreone, F., Anthony, B., Schmidt, B., Babik, W., Schabetsberger, R., Vogrin, M. & Puky, M. 2004. Triturus carnifex. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 09 July 2007.
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