Greek smooth newt

Greek smooth newt
Female (background) and male during breeding season
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Lissotriton
Species:
L. graecus
Binomial name
Lissotriton graecus
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 

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