
Lyciasalamandra is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae. They are native to southwestern coast of Turkey and nearby Aegean Islands (Greece). As of early 2018, all species in the genus are threatened. The common name Lycian salamanders has been coined for them.
Lyciasalamandra is a genus of salamanders in the family Salamandridae. They are native to southwestern coast of Turkey and nearby Aegean Islands (Greece). As of early 2018, all species in the genus are threatened. The common name Lycian salamanders has been coined for them.
==Species== Lyciasalamandra contains seven recognized species: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Scientific name !! Distribution |- |120px||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. |- |120px||Lyciasalamandra helverseni (Pieper, 1963)|| Greece. |- |120px||Lyciasalamandra luschani (Steindachner, 1891)||Greece, Turkey |- |}
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).