Greek smooth newt

Greek smooth newt
Female (background) and male during breeding season
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Salamandridae
Genus:	Lissotriton
Species:	L. graecus
Binomial name
Lissotriton graecus (Wolterstorff, 1906)[1]
Range (hatching indicates unclear contact zones with L. vulgaris and L. schmidtleri)
Synonyms[2]
15 synonyms Triton vulgaris graeca Wolterstorff, 1906 Triton vulgaris intermedia Kolombatovic, 1907 Triton vulgaris graeca forma tomasinii Wolterstorff, 1908 Triton vulgaris graeca forma corcyrensis Wolterstorff, 1908 Triton meridionalis var. graeca Schreiber, 1912 Triton vulgaris graeca Wolterstorff, 1912 Triton meridionalis var. graeca forma tomasinii Schreiber, 1912 Triton vulgaris forma schreiberi Wolterstorff, 1914 Triton vulgaris forma schreiberi Wolterstorff, 1925 Triton (Palaeotriton) vulgaris graecus Bolkay, 1927 Triturus vulgaris graecus Mertens and Müller, 1928 Triturus vulgaris tomasinii Mertens and Müller, 1928 Triturus vulgaris schreiberi Mertens and Müller, 1940 Triturus meridionalis graeca Bodenheimer, 1944 Lissotriton (Lissotriton) (vulgaris) graecus Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009

The Greek smooth newt or Greek newt (Lissotriton graecus) is a newt species found in the southern Balkans, from southern Croatia (Dalmatia) over Montenegro, Albania and North Macedonia to Greece and south-westernmost Bulgaria.^{[3][4]: 234}