Lyciasalamandra billae

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Lyciasalamandra billae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Amphibia
Order: Urodela
Family: Salamandridae
Genus: Lyciasalamandra
Species:
L. billae
Binomial name
Lyciasalamandra billae
(Franzen & Klewen, 1987)
Synonyms [2]
  • Mertensiella luschani billaeFranzen and Klewen, 1987
  • Lyciasalamandra irfaniGöçmen, Arikan, and Yalçinkaya, 2011
  • Lyciasalamandra yehudahiGöçmen and Akman, 2012
  • Lyciasalamandra arikaniGöçmen and Akman, 2012

Lyciasalamandra billae, the bay Lycian salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae found only in Turkey. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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References

  1. Yakup Kaska, Yusuf Kumluta?, Aziz Avci, Nazan Üzüm, Can Yeniyurt, Ferdi Akarsu, Varol Tok, Ismail H. Ugurtas, Murat Sevinç, Pierre-André Crochet, Theodore Papenfuss, Max Sparreboom, Sergius Kuzmin, Steven Anderson, Mathieu Denoël (2017). "Lyciasalamandra billae ssp. billae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2017: e.T61915A112693602. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-1.RLTS.T61915A112693602.en .{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Frost, Darrel R. (2019). "Lyciasalamandra billae". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA. Retrieved 11 October 2019.