Neurergus

Neurergus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Salamandroidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Classis: Amphibia Subclassis: Lissamphibia Ordo: Urodela Subordo: Salamandroidea

Familia: Salamandridae
Subfamilia: Pleurodelinae
Genus: Neurergus
Species (4): N. crocatus – N. derjugini – N. kaiseri – N. microspilotus – N. strauchii

Name

• Neurergus Cope, 1862: 343

Type species: Neurergus crocatus Cope, 1862, by monotypy.

Synonyms

• Rhithrotriton Nesterov, 1916: 1 [synonymized by Nikolskii (1918: 196)]

Type species: Rhithrotriton derjugini Nesterov, 1916, by original designation.

• Musergus Dubois & Raffaëlli, 2009: 54 [as subgenus]

Type species: Molge strauchii Steindachner, 1888, by original designation.

References

Primary references

• Cope, E.D. 1862. Notes upon some Reptiles of the Old World. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 14: 337–344. BHL Reference page. 
• Nesterov, P.V. 1916. [Three new forms of amphibians (Urodela) of Kurdistan] (In Russian). Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de Petrograd 21: 1–30.
• Dubois, A. & Raffaëlli, J. 2009. A new ergotaxonomy of the family Salamandridae Goldfuss, 1820 (Amphibia, Urodela). Alytes 26: 1–85.

Links

• Amphibian Species of the World 5.2 Neurergus access date 8 August 2008

Vernacular names

English: Spotted Newts

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