Macedonian crested newt

Macedonian crested newt
male in "mating dress"
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Caudata
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Triturus
Species: T. macedonicus
Binomial name
Triturus macedonicus
(Karaman, 1922)
Synonyms[1]

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-Herzegovina, Albania, Macedonia, north-western Greece and south-western Bulgaria[2]).

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.[3]

Triturus arntzeni was considered a synonym of T. macedonicus,[4] but this name applies in fact to a hybrid between this species and the Balkan-Anatolian crested newt (T. ivanbureschi), and thus is a synonym of both species.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Frost DR. (2015). "Triturus macedonicus. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0". New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
  2. ↑ Naumov, Borislav; Tzankov, Nikolay (2008). First record of Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922) (Amphibia: Salamandridae) in Bulgaria (PDF).
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Wielstra, B.; Arntzen, J. W. (2014). "Kicking Triturus arntzeni when it's down: large-scale nuclear genetic data confirm that newts from the type locality are genetically admixed". Zootaxa. 3802 (3): 381. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3802.3.7. ISSN 1175-5334.
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