Macedonian crested newt
| Macedonian crested newt | |
|---|---|
 | |
| male in "mating dress" | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Caudata |
| Family: | Salamandridae |
| Genus: | Triturus |
| Species: | T. macedonicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922) | |
| Synonyms | |
|
Molge karelinii var. macedonicus | |
The Macedonian crested newt (Triturus macedonicus) is a newt species of the crested newt species complex in genus Triturus, found in the Western Balkan peninsula (Bosnia-Hercegovina, Albania, Macedonia, Northwestern Greece).
To the North, its range borders that of the Danube crested newt and the Northern crested newt and to the East, that of the Balkan-Anatolian crested newt.
It was first described as a variety of Triturus karelinii, later considered a subspecies of Triturus carnifex, and was elevated to species rank following molecular phylogenetic analysis in 2007.[1]
Triturus arntzeni is a synonym of T. macedonicus.[2]
References
- ↑ Arntzen, J.W.; Espregueira Themudo, G.; Wielstra, B. (2007). "The phylogeny of crested newts (Triturus cristatus superspecies): nuclear and mitochondrial genetic characters suggest a hard polytomy, in line with the paleogeography of the centre of origin". Contributions to Zoology 76 (4): 261–278. ISSN 1383-4517.
- ↑ Wielstra, B.; Litvinchuk, S. N.; Naumov, B.; Tzankov, N.; Arntzen, J. W. (2013). "A revised taxonomy of crested newts in the Triturus karelinii group (Amphibia: Caudata: Salamandridae), with the description of a new species". Zootaxa 3682 (3): 441. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3682.3.5. ISSN 1175-5334.
