| Caucasian salamander | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Urodela |
| Family: | Salamandridae |
| Subfamily: | Salamandrinae |
| Genus: | Mertensiella Wolterstorff, 1925 |
| Species: | M. caucasica
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| Binomial name | |
| Mertensiella caucasica (Waga, 1876)
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The Caucasian salamander (Mertensiella caucasica) is a species of stream-dwelling salamander in the family Salamandridae. This is a salamander of medium size, with a thin, elongated body. It is a relict species, endemic to the south-western Caucasus, in Georgia and Turkey. The subspecies M. c. janashvilii[2] is found at Mt. Mtirala near Batumi and probably along the Black Sea coast.
- ^ Ugur Kaya, Boris Tuniyev, Natalia Ananjeva, Nikolai Orlov, Theodore Papenfuss, Sergius Kuzmin, David Tarkhnishvili, Sako Tuniyev, Max Sparreboom, Ismail Ugurtas, Steven Anderson (2009). "Mertensiella caucasica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T13198A3418986. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T13198A3418986.en. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
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