Lyciasalamandra

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Lyciasalamandra
Benny Trapp Lyciasalamandra helverseni.jpg
Lyciasalamandra helverseni
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Subfamily: Salamandrinae
Genus: Lyciasalamandra
Veith and Steinfartz, 2004
Type species
Lyciasalamandra luschani

Lyciasalamandra is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae. They are native to southwestern coast of Turkey and nearby Aegean Islands (Greece). [1] As of early 2018, all species in the genus are threatened. [2] The common name Lycian salamanders has been coined for them. [3]

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Species

Lyciasalamandra contains seven recognized species: [1]

ImageScientific nameDistribution
Anatolia Lycian salamander imported from iNaturalist photo 181031301 on 6 August 2022.jpg Lyciasalamandra antalyana (Basoglu and Baran, 1976)Turkey.
Lyciasalamandra atifi (Basoglu, 1967)Turkey.
Lyciasalamandra billae (Franzen and Klewen, 1987)Turkey.
Lyciasalamandra fazilae (Basoglu and Atatür, 1974)Turkey.
Lyciasalamandra flavimembris (Mutz and Steinfartz, 1995)Turkey.
Benny Trapp Lyciasalamandra helverseni.jpg Lyciasalamandra helverseni (Pieper, 1963)Greece.
K. Kalaentzis - Lyciasalamandra luschani.jpg Lyciasalamandra luschani (Steindachner, 1891)Greece, Turkey

Molecular data suggest that some recently described species (Lyciasalamandra irfani, [4] Lyciasalamandra arikani, and Lyciasalamandra yehudahi [5] ), which as of early 2018 are still listed by the AmphibiaWeb, [6] should be considered as subspecies of Lyciasalamandra billae. [3] [7]

Reproduction

All Lyciasalamandra species are viviparous, as are four species of Salamandra . [8]

References

  1. 1 2 Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Lyciasalamandra Veith and Steinfartz, 2004". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species" . Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. 1 2 Veith, Michael; Göçmen, Bayram; Sotiropoulos, Konstantinos; Kieren, Sarah; Godmann, Olaf; Steinfartz, Sebastian (2016). "Seven at one blow: the origin of major lineages of the viviparous Lycian salamanders (Lyciasalamandra Veith and Steinfartz, 2004) was triggered by a single paleo-historic event". Amphibia-Reptilia. 37 (4): 373–387. doi:10.1163/15685381-00003067. S2CID   53358254.
  4. ↑ Göçmen, B.; Arikan, H. & Yalçinkaya (2011). "A new Lycian Salamander, threatened with extinction, from the Göynük Canyon (Antalya, Anatolia), Lyciasalamandra irfani n. sp. (Urodela: Salamandridae)" (PDF). North-Western Journal of Zoology. 7 (1): 151–160.
  5. ↑ Göçmen, B. & Akman, B. (2012). "Lyciasalamandra arikani n. sp. & L. yehudahi n. sp. (Amphibia: Salamandridae), two new Lycian salamanders from southwestern Anatolia" (PDF). North-Western Journal of Zoology. 8 (1): 181–194.
  6. ↑ "Salamandridae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  7. ↑ Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Lyciasalamandra billae (Franzen and Klewen, 1987)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  8. ↑ Vitt, Laurie J.; Caldwell, Janalee P. (2014). Herpetology: An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles (4th ed.). Academic Press. p. 169.


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