Southern banded newt

Southern banded newt
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Ommatotriton
Species:
O. vittatus
Binomial name
Ommatotriton vittatus
Gray, 1835
Synonyms

Triturus ophzticus Berthold, 1846
Triturus vittatus
Molge vittata

1909 illustration of a male and a female of the species.

The southern banded newt (Ommatotriton vittatus) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae found in Armenia (Lori Province of northern Armenia), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. This species has two subspecies - O. v. vittatus (found in Turkey, Syria, and Israel) and O. v. ciliensis (found in Turkey).[2]

The southern banded newt is a medium-sized newt of 90–110 mm total body length.[2] Females are often slightly smaller than males and have about half their weight but both males and females have a similar mean body condition index.[3]

  1. ^ Kurtuluş Olgun, Jan Willem Arntzen, Theodore Papenfuss, Gad Degani, Ismail Ugurtas, Ahmad Disi, Max Sparreboom, Steven Anderson, Riyad Sadek, Souad Hraoui-Bloquet, Avital Gasith, Eldad Elron, Sarig Gafny, Yehudah Werner, Aziz Avci, Nazan Üzüm (2009). "Ommatotriton vittatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2009: e.T59480A11930635. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2009.RLTS.T59480A11930635.en.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b Altunışık, Abdullah (30 June 2018). "The first demographic data and body size of the southern banded newt, Ommatotriton vittatus (Caudata: Salamandridae)". Acta Herpetologica: 13–19 Pages. doi:10.13128/ACTA_HERPETOL-21171.
  3. ^ Bogaerts, Serge; Sparreboom, Max; Pasmans, Frank; Almasri, Aroub; Beukema, Wouter; Shehab, Adwan; Amr, Zuhair (16 February 2013). "Distribution, ecology and conservation of Ommatotriton vittatus and Salamandra infraimmaculata in Syria". Salamandra. 49 (2): 87–96 – via Research Gate.