Triturus macedonicus

Triturus macedonicus
male in "mating dress"
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Triturus
Species:
T. macedonicus
Binomial name
Triturus macedonicus
(Karaman, 1922)
Synonyms[1]
  • Molge karelinii var. macedonica Karaman, 1922
  • Triturus carnifex macedonicus Arntzen and Wallis, 1999
  • Triturus (Triturus) macedonicus Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009
  • Triturus cristatus carnifex var. albanicus Dely, 1959
  • Triturus karelinii arntzeni Litvinchuk, Borkin, Džukić and Kalezić 1999
  • Triturus (Triturus) karelinii arntzeni Dubois and Raffaëlli, 2009
  • Triturus arntzeni Espregueira Themudo, Wielstra, and Arntzen, 2009

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]

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  2. ^ Naumov, Borislav; Tzankov, Nikolay (2008). First record of Triturus macedonicus (Karaman, 1922) (Amphibia: Salamandridae) in Bulgaria (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-07-14.
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