Biology:Triturus macedonicus
| Triturus macedonicus | |
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| male in "mating dress" | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Salamandridae |
| Genus: | Triturus |
| Species: | T. macedonicus
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| Binomial name | |
| Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922)
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Triturus macedonicus, the Macedonian crested newt, is a newt species of the crested newt species complex in genus Triturus, found in the Western Balkan peninsula (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, North 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
- ↑ Frost DR. (2015). "Triturus macedonicus. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0". New York, USA: American Museum of Natural History. http://research.amnh.org/vz/herpetology/amphibia/index.php//Amphibia/Caudata/Salamandridae/Pleurodelinae/Triturus/Triturus-macedonicus. Retrieved 2015-05-31.
- ↑ Naumov, Borislav; Tzankov, Nikolay (2008). First record of Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922) (Amphibia: Salamandridae) in Bulgaria. http://www.nmnhs.com/downloads/pdfs/historia-naturalis-bulgarica/2008/019-111-114.pdf.
- ↑ 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. doi:10.1163/18759866-07604005. ISSN 1383-4517. http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/94261.
- ↑ 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. PMID 25243299.
- ↑ 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. PMID 24871018.
Wikidata ☰ Q1766499 entry
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