Lyciasalamandra billae

Lyciasalamandra billae
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
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.

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 .
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.