Lissotriton
Lissotriton is a genus of newts native to Europe and parts of Asia Minor. As most other newts, they are aquatic as larvae and during breeding time but live in terrestrial, humid environments over the rest of the season.
Species
Smooth Newt
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassAmphibia
- OrderCaudata
- FamilySalamandridae
Observations25,908
Ein männlicher Fadenmolch. Karpatenmolch (Lissotriton montandoni) Lissotriton ist eine Gattung aus der Familie der Echten Salamander mit 10 Arten. Die Arten dieser Gattung wurden lange Zeit der Gattung Triturus zugeordnet, bevor sie als eigene Gattung abgespaltet wurden.
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- Parent taxon
- Salamandridae
Article
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Lissotriton is a genus of newts native to Europe and parts of Asia Minor. As most other newts, they are aquatic as larvae and during breeding time but live in terrestrial, humid environments over the rest of the season.
These rather small species used to be included in genus Triturus, but phylogenetic analyses demonstrated that genus as paraphyletic. In the following, the name Lissotriton, originally introduced by Thomas Bell in 1839, was reinstated for the small-bodied species related to the type species Lissotriton vulgaris (the smooth newt).