Biology:Lyciasalamandra billae

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Short description: Species of amphibian

Lyciasalamandra billae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Lyciasalamandra
Species:
L. billae
Binomial name
Lyciasalamandra billae
(Franzen & Klewen, 1987)
Synonyms[2]
  • Göçmen and Akman, 2012 Franzen and Klewen, 1987
  • Göçmen and Akman, 2012 Lyciasalamandra irfani
  • Mertensiella luschani billae Göçmen, Arikan, and Yalçinkaya, 2011
  • Lyciasalamandra yehudahi Lyciasalamandra arikani

Lyciasalamandra billae, the bay Lycian salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae found only in Turkey. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

  1. Yakup Kaska, Yusuf Kumluta?, Aziz Avci, Nazan Üzüm, Can Yeniyurt, Ferdi Akarsu, Varol Tok, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Pierre-André Crochet, Theodore Papenfuss, Max Sparreboom, Sergius Kuzmin, Steven Anderson, Mathieu Denoël (2017). "Lyciasalamandra billae ssp. billae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T61915A112693602. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T61915A112693602.en. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/61915/112693602. 
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Lyciasalamandra billae". American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Salamandrinae/Lyciasalamandra/Lyciasalamandra-billae. 

Wikidata ☰ Q2714080 entry