Ommatotriton

Ommatotriton
Southern banded newt (Ommatotriton vittatus)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Amphibia
Order:	Urodela
Family:	Salamandridae
Subfamily:	Pleurodelinae
Genus:	Ommatotriton Gray, 1850
Species
3 species (see text)

Ommatotriton or banded newts is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae. ^{[1] [2]} The genus occurs in Western Asia and Caucasus. The species in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Triturus . ^[1]

Taxonomy

The genus contains three species: ^{[1] [2]}

• Ommatotriton nesterovi (Litvinchuk, Zuiderwijk, Borkin, and Rosanov, 2005) — Anatolian banded newt
• Ommatotriton ophryticus (Berthold, 1846) — northern banded newt
• Ommatotriton vittatus (Gray, 1835) — southern banded newt

References

1. Frost, Darrel R. (2018). "Ommatotriton Gray, 1850". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 5 June 2018.
2. "Salamandridae". AmphibiaWeb. University of California, Berkeley. 2018. Retrieved 5 June 2018.

External links

• Media related to Ommatotriton at Wikimedia Commons